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Re: Pneumatic Magic Presetnation Maertials
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:20:59 GMT
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Ross Crawford's utterance expressed in news:HJovou.1wF6@lugnet.com:
> And thanks Kevin for the PPT file, it's great!
Definately - with more presentations like this - a whole
library of good knowledge can be made :)
> Although I do have one little query - on page 4, you say the cylinders
> "Expand faster than they contract" - is this correct? I thought it
> would be the other way round - they contract faster but with less
> force?
you're right.. the volume to fill with air is smaller in the shaft-end
hence it moves faster inwards.. but that is without load.. I believe
that the force generated with LEGO-pneumatic is much greater in con-
traction than it is in expansion. But that is to be tested :)
Play on...
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