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Re: Lego pneumatic systems overview?
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lugnet.technic
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Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:16:56 GMT
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Juergen Stuber wrote:
> > 2) How strong is the air pressure? How much weight can a
> > single cylinder move at full pressure?
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> By highly scientific methods [1] I got ~54N,
> beyond that the cylinder starts leaking.
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> With a diameter of the piston of 13mm that gives
> 54N/(pi*0.0065mm^2)=406833.94 Pa ~ 4 times atmospheric pressure.
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> That is rather new transparent cylinder from UBS (3800),
> pumped to maximum with a big yellow pump.
That's good news. My interest is in building full-built models and not
the technic see-through style efforts that I usually see the pneumatics
used on so it'll be important that the cylinders are capable of moving
the combined weight of the bricks.
> LEGO apparently puts some grease in the cylinder, in the clear one
> it is visible. That moves around with every move of the cylinder.
I followed the link that Tobbe had pointed out and will try seeing what
I can do to improve the flow of my one "gunked" cylinder. Hopefully I
can bump it's performance up to the standard of the other.
Thanks for the help!
-Brian Reynolds
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| (...) By highly scientific methods [1] I got ~54N, beyond that the cylinder starts leaking. With a diameter of the piston of 13mm that gives 54N/(pi*0.0065mm^2)=406833.94 Pa ~ 4 times atmospheric pressure. That is rather new transparent cylinder (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.technic)
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