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Automated Piston Cycler Device with Arduino

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I built this control box to cycle a piston in some of our assemblies at work. We had problems with rebuilt assemblies sticking after a few hours of cycling. The rebuilders couldn’t test this because they would have to manually cycled the piston back and forth many times to verify the functionality (time-consuming). This piston cycler is capable of automatically cycling a dual action cylinder at an adjustable rate, and enable the operator to pause the motion to make adjustments, and continue testing. The counter keeps track of the number of cycles for record keeping purposes. Here’s how I made it.

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Process Control Using Arduino

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This project involved designing a device to regulate the flow of chilled water through a heat exchanger based on the coolant temperature of an internal combustion engine. It’s made up of three parts: A controller, a motorized valve, and a temperature sensor.

The controller consists of an arduino, a LM298 based motor driver, resettable fuse, LCD and misc. buttons/connectors.

The motorized valve is a standard ball valve with a bracket to support a gear motor and a encoder for position feedback.

The operator inputs a desired coolant temperature which is maintained by adjusting the flow through the heat exchanger. During this project I learned about driving inductive loads with a micro controller, PID tuning, and closed loop feedback control.