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Thanks for the pointers to your and Mike's sites!
Big help.....
Which motor (5114 or the newer 5225) has
given you the best results?
- - - Nick - - -
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Nick Taylor writes:
> > Rcvd my pneumatic components yesterday ... and
> > am having doubts about their practicality. The smaller
> > cylinder and pump (5116 & 5117) are not powerful
> > enough to do much of amything of any use.
>
> The small pump makes a fine compressor which lots of us use. I agree that the
> small cylinder is not that useful.
>
> The
> > larger set (5107 & 5108) have enough power to
> > lift and hold a full can of beer ... but powering the
> > pump is a problem. The 5225 motor (the one that
> > comes with MindStorm) is very difficult to gear ...
> > I haven't found an approriate ratio as yet. 1:15 stalls
> > the motor when pressure is built-up in the tank, and
> > 1:45 never builds sufficient pressure. Need to do
> > more playing!
>
> Are you using a pressure limit switch to shut off the compressor? lu posted a
> design a while back which I captured on my site. Although I used it with the
> design for a compressor that Michael Powell posted which uses the smaller
> compressor cylinder, it might work for you.
>
> Surf here:
> http://my.voyager.net/lar/pneu.html
> which will also lead you here to see the compressor I refered to above:
> http://www.sonic.net/~rci/legocompressor.htm
>
> However, I will say that I struggled to put together a multigang compressor for
> several days using 4 of the bigger cylinders and could not find an arrangement
> of gears that worked for me. That just means I'm not mechanically inclined, not
> that it can't be done.
>
> ++Lar
>
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