I started this project like… i dunno, 2-3 years ago. I designed the blast gates, the pneumatic system, suggested the use of sonoff svs, the integrations with interlocks etc etc. Its just something the woodshop has been working towards for a long time. So really Ryan is just talking about what we’ve already been doing for years. The stuff that hasnt been done is the sonoff and the switches, everything else exists currently. although i’d like to do new metal gates now we have the yag, but thats neither here nor there.
the gates all have valves on them so you can disengage them from the greater compressed air. this is how you flip them to manual mode afair. but you could put a solenoid on the whole system and disengage it if you wanted.
This is the main concern of closing all gates. I figured in the initial design we might put a gate up high somewhere as the ‘default gate’ and use it to cycle the air in the shop, get any particulate thats in the air.
Any reason we’ve moved away from the already chosen and bought buttons and the enclosure i did? not having a stress just curious for the change.