Direct Drive Actuators & Pressure Switch Control

Hi everyone.
First time posting, so please, don’t be too harsh.

I’m fairly new to the whole robotics thing.
I have a project, that’s not quite robotics but this may be the simplest way to get it done.

I essentially have a situation that calls for 3x Direct Drive Actuators (I currently do not have these).
They need to activate when I hit the ‘open button’. The first actuator needs to run, hit a pressure switch which cuts the first and activates the second actuator, which then runs until it hits the second pressure switch which cuts that actuator and then activates the third actuator which then eventually hits the end of its cycle or cuts due to a third pressure switch. I can do this part with conventional pressure switches.

The hard part is making it run in reverse when I hit the ‘close’ button (it needs to run 3rd, 2nd, 1st). It gets a lot more technical to do this with conventional switch gear.

So I thought robotics might have the answer, as this is probably a fairly simple thing to achieve.

I am open to thoughts, but as I said above, please don’t be to harsh as I’m new to all this.

Cheers

Hi mcc105,

This could probably be done with a microcontroller like an Arduino.
Get the switches / pressure sensors as digital inputs and trigger the different actuators from there.

HERE is a page from one of our supplier.

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