Pneumatic System Testing

The entire pneumatic setup was tested out today. We brought the air compressor, along with all of our hoses and manifolds, from the 706 lab down to the LL2 workshops, where we could test out our pneumatic system under proper supervision. We wrapped all the threaded connections in teflon tape in order to eliminate all possible sources of air leakage. We hooked up the solenoid valves to a power supply and manually applied a current whenever we needed air to flow through. After allowing the compressor to run and fill up for a while, we attached our pneumatic setup to it using a quick disconnect fitting. At this point we adjusted the regulator that came with the compressor to find the optimal pressure for our intended usage. We determined that ~37.5 psi is the pressure needed to propel average ping pong balls to the height that they would need to be at in order to block the targets.