The Machine That Ate Compressed Air for Breakfast We built a pick-and-place station with eight pneumatic cylinders. On the spec sheet, each cylinder used 0.5 NL per cycle. At 60 cycles per minute, that’s 240 NL per minute — about 14 m³/h. The customer’s existing air compressor was sized for their old equipment. Within a …

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