Hi Pedro, Using a controller with audio would allow you to add sound. Something like a PicoBoo MP3 would work well: www.frightprops.com/picoboo-mp3.html Creating a looping animation can again be done with the controller. Some controllers, like a PicoBoo MP3 allow for what we call "ambient animation," which is animation that repeats indefinitely when ever the unit is powered on and not being triggered. On less advanced controllers you can do what is called "looping the trigger input," which simply means bridging the trigger terminal connections with a piece of wire so that the unit is always being triggered, and therefor always playing its programmed animation, when it is powered on The controller demonstrated in this video has a single solid state output so it is best used to control only one low voltage device. Other more advanced controllers have multiple outputs which can be used to control many solenoids or other electronics. Hope that helps! Scott FrightProps

@@FrightProps can you use the peekaboo 1 for multiple cylinder and do I need a flow control for it?

You can, and it will avoid additional noise from a leak around the muffler.

That depends primarily on two things. The pounds per square inch from the regulator, and the diameter of the piston. Bigger diameter pistons press harder, smaller diameter pistons press with less power. If there is a pinching hazard, it's a good idea to use smaller diameter pistons.

Try it, and if it doesn't work, replace it with a larger diameter piston until you get the desired hold down strength. Trying to figure it out ahead of time is pretty difficult as it depends on a rather large number of parameters, like what kind of end will you put on the shaft, what's pushing on the aluminum, what PSI you use (as you guessed) and so forth.

No. In this case with a DA (double acting cylinder) the pressure is applied at the bottom tube to extend the cylinder and air has to come out the top port for the cylinder to extend. When the command is given to retract, the exact opposite happens. Air is applied to the top of the cylinder and air is pushed out the bottom port.

nearly any air compressor would do unless you are repeating the movement so fast that you would exhaust air too quickly for a little compressor to keep up.

i see what you did there

You can depending on your application. You will need another type of valve and some means of controlling the timing of the valve. It's not very exact and needs some fiddling to make it work. You also need to slow down the cylinder.

pneumatic cylidners are not meant for oil. if you compress oil in a pneumatic cylinder it will explode and you can be seriously injured or killed that way.

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ideally, a piston with 1 square inch of area (a little bigger than a 1" diameter piston) that is driven with 60 PSI should be able to do that, but reality varies from the ideal quite often. So the question would be what PSI would you want to run it at, and then do the math to figure the area of the cross section of the cylinder.

Yup, you got it!

@@FrightProps Hey thanks for the reply.

Probably not with the controller shown. That would require pushing the button pretty darn fast. You can get really fast if you control it with an Arduino though. 100 inches per second though is really super fast, you would have to experiment with your particular setup.

i think if you want even more speed, you might be better of using the penumatic cylinder as a pinion to drive a gear stepping up to another pinon that will travel faster(and shorter stroke), you could also do the same with a block and tackle style pulley system.

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