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(...) I found this picture on my brickshelf account. It shows the lego geometry needed to implement the four port switch. The hoses are not right, but the switch positions and lever linkages are correct. (URL) (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I'm not at home, so I can't lookup the history on this in my LEGO notebooks. I think Doug Carlson invented this. I rederived it today, because I knew it wasn't too complicated. It involves four switches and four T's. The four switches form two (...) (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Billy, A LEGO pneumatic switch has four ports. You are probably familiar with the obvious three: left, center and right. The fourth port is not obvious. When you've got pressure on one port of the piston, and you switch the switch so you (...) (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Is it now? Hmmmmmm. How would one go about hooking these switches to access the fourth port? Is there a website that I can visit that would give a good explanation to this? With thanks, Billy. (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I know this sounds a little naive, but what is a release-free switch, and what would it be used for? Billy. (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Ahhh, I would love to see it done :-) CS (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Yes, the fourth port is an issue. It is possible to hook multiple switches to give you access to the fourth port though. (...) Kevin (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) That makes sense. I guess that over a long circuit the air in the system would loose its... uh... effectiveness at accurately sending and recieving the information from the RAM device, (I guess thats how you would say it.) and that a purely (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Speaking of liquids, Is it possible to replace the air in the pneumatic system to make a hydraulic system. I mean by using something like, oh say, 10 WT silicone oil? (URL) I guess not since you can't complete the circuit because of the (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Nathan, It is possible to make a sprayer using pneumatics. Imagine how a super soaker works. You have a water tank, and an air pressure tank. You pump up pressure in the air pressure tank. Once you release that pressure, the water is (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Billy, I'm pretty sure you could, but I doubt you'd want to use a piston per bit of memory. (...) Instead you might want to use a 1x10 technic brick, with long pins with friction in them. The idea being that you can slide the pins in the (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi Like Tommy Eriksson I have also decided to post a reply to this old thread. I am in the process of trying to make LEGO fly but unlike Tommy, I am going for a small light powered glider that is catapulted from a Technic "ballista-like" affair that (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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You guys are smart. I get lost reading your posts but can appreciate the genius displayed in them. Could pneumatics be used to pump a liquid? I mean, you know how air pressure is used in spray bottles/soap dispensors? The moving air goes over a gap (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi all. I'm sorta new here so, I'm not real familiar with way the forums work. Anyhow, having seen the three position piston control by Kevin L. Clague, and other various pneumatic logic devices using Boolean logic and Boolean gates, I was (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Just so. (...) No, it wouldn't walk backwards. To make it work, you'd only have to interchange the hoses at the switches. That's because a suction force acts in the opposite direction to the traditional compressed air. Your walker will then (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Kevin. Had to break-in as matters seem to be getting outta hand. It appears we're getting a new generation of pneumatic fans. Great! (...) No, you use them the same way. The pneumatic switch is basically a directional control valve. It (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) It is possible to combine multiple switches into a release-free switch, but they would probably be more load than a single switch used on dual ported piston. Kevin (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) I'm glad if I saved you some bucks. The fourth exhaust port is a necessity (for the cylinders to work) and a nuisance (being inaccessible). I first learned about it from Erik Brok's site. In real-life pneumatics, this port would be brought out (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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In lugnet.technic, Andrew Meyer wrote: "...if you set up a system in which one tank was pressure and one was vacuum, and applied both to a... 90d phase shift 2 cyl engine... so that when one side of a cylinder had pressure applied, the other would (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Hi Dr. Soh, Nice to hear from you. I've never actually built with the original pneumatics, but my understanding is that the way to use switches in the old pneumatics is different than the way you use them with dual ported pistons. Don't you (...) (19 years ago, 18-Nov-05, to lugnet.technic)
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