Pnumatic Pressure Sensor

[Cyberbuggies55760]

Should VEX make a V5 smart sensor to allow teams to know what their tank pressure is during a match?

[61466B]

I would love to have a pneumatic air pressure sensor, but in the mean time, there is this:

V5 legal pneumatic pressure sensor

This year in VRC, my team relied heavily on pneumatics for shooting and especially endgame. Our current endgame uses 3 pistons to release and all of them require at least 50 psi to fire. As we have other systems on board that use pressure, we had to carefully regulate our pressure use during matches to make sure endgame would work. I tried to find an easy solution by simply getting a pressure gauge from the store for our bot, but learned that they weren’t competition legal. So, I designed my own…

[kmmohn]

Here you go! If you’re a VEX-U team you can use this pressure transmitter right away, but if you’re a high school team you’ll have to wait for a while.

But I don’t think many teams will be willing to pay the price for a pressure transmitter, and my company uses Automation Direct as a supplier because their prices are so good!

https://www.automationdirect.com/adc/shopping/catalog/pneumatic_components/pneumatic_pressure_sensors/pneumatic_pressure_transmitters/ptd25-20-0100h