Air Muscle Project

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Hello,

I am looking for some advice for my current project.

I intend to control 3 Air muscles (single acting cylinder, [Festo-fluidic muscles]) through a valve terminal (Festo Pneumatic Valve terminal CPV 14 V1 18210) from a silent Bambi Air compressor. I am wanting to control this valve terminal (the exhaust and inflate times) through Arduino. (I currently have an Arduino Uno).

I would like to know if the Arduino is capable of controlling this project. If so, how do I go about connecting the Arduino to the valve terminal (cables, power supply)

I have some images of the fibre glass pieces I have been creating for the air muscles to fit into which I will attach with some sketches of what I hope to create.

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You'll need to provide some detail of the Festo components. Presumably they are electrical in some way so you should provide links to the datasheets and / or details of what signals they need to operate.

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From what I can see that is a Fieldbus node for driving solenoid valves.

Why not drive the solenoid valves with MOSFETs or similar? Got to be cheaper...