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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis Air Assist
« on: December 26, 2016, 02:36:57 PM »
The compressor tank can't be the accumulator tank because it is in front of the regulator. So if there is no tank after the regulator then it can be one of two things. It could be just using cylinder volume which is a poor way to do it. Or it has a relieving regulator that can dump air as the cylinder is compressed. Listen to the regulator as the axis moves. You can hear a relieving regulator when it vents off due to a rise in pressure. I dealt with a lot of this stuff when I was building pneumatic packaging machinery. So I'd be interested in what you actually have because I have seen lots of bad designs.