I have a project I am working on where I need solenoids, and I am hoping someone here can help me source them. What I need is not a very complex, powerful, or fast device. These need to be inexpensive. so they have to be new and not scavenged, and I am hoping not more than a couple of dollars a piece.
stroke is short - maybe 5-10 mm. Pressure is small - perhaps 30-60 grams. Preferably operating at 5 volts, so control logic will be easy. The only tricky parameter is they need to be narrow...the mechanism shouldn't be more than 1cm in diameter or 1cm square, though length is not a particular issue, within reason (I am hoping I can get under 5 cm in length), I don't think that mounting has any particularly extraordinary requirements.
Speed and duty cycle are not a concern in the first version of the product, where 0.5 would be sufficient, maybe even a slower device would be okay, with a low duty cycle (perhaps 25 strokes per hour).
Second, better project needs to have a higher speed and duty cycle, 10-15 strokes per second for hours on end...though these times would be in a job of four hours, and then perhaps not used for days.
Noise is not particularly in issue, but in general, the quieter the better.
Ideally, I'd like to get a kit of a couple dozen models within the parameters I've described so I can experiment to see which model is most appropriate.
stroke is short - maybe 5-10 mm. Pressure is small - perhaps 30-60 grams. Preferably operating at 5 volts, so control logic will be easy. The only tricky parameter is they need to be narrow...the mechanism shouldn't be more than 1cm in diameter or 1cm square, though length is not a particular issue, within reason (I am hoping I can get under 5 cm in length), I don't think that mounting has any particularly extraordinary requirements.
Speed and duty cycle are not a concern in the first version of the product, where 0.5 would be sufficient, maybe even a slower device would be okay, with a low duty cycle (perhaps 25 strokes per hour).
Second, better project needs to have a higher speed and duty cycle, 10-15 strokes per second for hours on end...though these times would be in a job of four hours, and then perhaps not used for days.
Noise is not particularly in issue, but in general, the quieter the better.
Ideally, I'd like to get a kit of a couple dozen models within the parameters I've described so I can experiment to see which model is most appropriate.