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Question regarding Pneumatic cylinder.

Discussion in 'SimTools compatible interfaces' started by xtech007, Nov 13, 2010.

  1. xtech007

    xtech007 Member

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    I'm close to buy 2 pneumatic cylinders that are 2 bore X 10 stroke the ports are 1/4.
    I seen some that have the same specs but the ports are 1/2.
    Witch one would i benefit the most?
    I also need to buy a pneumatic solenoid valve, with witch ever port size the cylinder is.
    is this correct?
    Any guide would be greatly appreciated.
    :sos:
    xtech007, Nov 13, 2010
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  2. EnduRock

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    Hello,
    With 1/2 port size the cylender will work faster compared to 1/4 as long as the air flow rate is same. But I think it would not much important if you use throttle walves as well. I suggest you to use throttle walves so you can adjust speeds of the cylinders. If I were you I would choose the valve and the cyliner with same port size.
    EnduRock, Nov 13, 2010
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  3. xtech007

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    Thanks for the reply!
    Hummm.. throttle valves for pneumatics?
    This is new to me, I have read about servo valves, any direction on where i can gather more info on this throttle valves?
    xtech007, Nov 13, 2010
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  4. egoexpress

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    For the money of proportional valves I'd rather go with AC gearhead motors and frequency inverters. Pneumatics are incapable of simulating rumble and they are quite inaccurate when handling high loads. Just my 2 cents.

    But if you are interested in pneumatics still, you may ask Monast for advice. He did make a motorbike sim with proportional pneumatics and Tronicgr' AMC controller.

    regards
    egoexpress, Nov 14, 2010
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