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Re: Questions from a pneumatics newbie.
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:23:24 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Tarrabain wrote:
> Okay... quick question, going back to square one. How many switches
> could I actually realistically gang onto one pneumatic piston so that
> the piston's position will simultaneously flip all of them?
I've gotten up to six.
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> I've just worked out a design for an octal register with tri-state
> outputs and a latched input, but it requires that 16 pneumatic switches
> all be ganged on one piston. I've also drawn up a 8 to 32 line demux
> and an 8 to 32 line mux as well (actually, they are identical... just
> mirror images of eachother), but they each require that 32 switches all
> be ganged onto one piston!
You can always pair up pistons that are linked to add more power. I'm very
curious to see how your logic works. Can you email me some details?
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> Just thinking out loud here.... I was thinking just now that to have
> enough pneumatic components to do one of my favorite first year digital
> electronics labs entirely in pneumatics (it involved tracing through
> microcode that might be executed when moving data from one cpu register
> to another) would require... uhmmm... let's see. 10 pistons for each of
> the three octal registers, 8 pistons for output, 40 pneumatic switches
> for each register, plus 8 switches for manual digital input, plus 2
> switches for input/output control for each register. That's uhmm... 38
> pistons and 134 pneumatic switches. Uh... rats. That's not gonna be
> happening anytime soon.
Thats more than what I have. I'm close on pistons, but not on switches.
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> <heavy sigh>
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> Oh well... maybe someday. :)
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> > > Mark
Kevin
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| Okay... quick question, going back to square one. How many switches could I actually realistically gang onto one pneumatic piston so that the piston's position will simultaneously flip all of them? I've just worked out a design for an octal register (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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