Air cylinders circuit line
Air cylinders circuit line
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Hi Team
(Please see the attachement)
* I used Four 80mm Cylinders to lift a single Steel plate, My Air pressure is 6bar and circuit dia is 8mm.
--My question is
Do i need to make my Air circuit fully balanced. or is it okay if i draw a simple circuit as shown in the attachment
can someone please really explain me the concept (Because in feature i planned to operate with 8 actuators, then balancing becomes more complicated)
Sakthi
(Please see the attachement)
* I used Four 80mm Cylinders to lift a single Steel plate, My Air pressure is 6bar and circuit dia is 8mm.
--My question is
Do i need to make my Air circuit fully balanced. or is it okay if i draw a simple circuit as shown in the attachment
can someone please really explain me the concept (Because in feature i planned to operate with 8 actuators, then balancing becomes more complicated)
Sakthi





RE: Air cylinders circuit line
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
See my attached image
Now i tried to explain bit more in details
Regards
Sakthi
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
You want all the tapered pins to move together. That's what die sets do. You can buy them for much less than it would cost you to make them.
Moving and guiding the die set is what punch presses do. Again, cheaper to buy.
Punch presses can be powered by slider cranks as usual, or by any number of air cylinders.
Again, cheaper to buy than make.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
Thanks for the quick answer
but my application is little different, so i would like to use the way in the image
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
Thanks for the comments.
So it means we do not have to really balance the Air cylinders,,isnt it !!?
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
If you want multiple cylinders or multiple objects powered by cylinders to move in unison, you must synchronize them mechanically (or with multiple linear position sensors and fancy controls).
Linear slides (as built into punch presses) are one way to do so.
You can also use crossed double torsion arms, or do some fancy stuff with roller chains and lots of sprockets, shafts, bearings, pillow blocks, and structure to support all that stuff.
The variations in plumbing that you have documented will not behave differently from each other, and neither will solve the problems you will encounter.
The binding you will encounter is fully explained in the typical sophomore kinematics problem involving a clown or other toy with eccentric mass that does not smoothly slide on a stick. With metal surfaces and tight clearances, the problem is even more extreme. In fact, several linear shaft brake mechanisms rely on the principle involved, and they work very well.
Granted, you have no basis for trusting my word.
Go ahead and build a prototype of whatever you think will work.
Build it and test it as quickly, cheaply, and quietly as possible, so as not to draw attention to the expense of your learning process.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
Thanks for your reply.
The Term i used ''BALANCING'' is just only because,if you see my picture (attached)
all i wanted to move the 36mm Steel plate parallely towards forward and backward.
i only had doubt if i should feed my Actuator with same equal length of Air Circuits
Regards
Stein
RE: Air cylinders circuit line
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