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Old Sep 2, 2010 | 10:55 PM
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Someone was telling me that progressive controllers are hard on solenoids? Any truth to that?
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Old Sep 2, 2010 | 11:13 PM
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Its hard if you have cheap noids lol. and if you consistanly run it. An example would be your doing a 300 shot and you start at 20% and ramp it up to a 99% and it takes 8 sec. to ramp it up.
If you do it where it ramps in a few sec. you would be ok. I have a progressive and its rocks. I wouldnt do anything else but that. I have my suspension set up where I can hook on a 250 shot right out of the hole.
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Old Sep 3, 2010 | 02:10 AM
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Yes its only hard on them if you really delay the nitrous to ramp up. Other than that its really the best thing money can buy.
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Old Sep 3, 2010 | 01:14 PM
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Yea i wasn't planning on ramping it up in an 8 second period haha. With my 200 shot i want to be able to establish traction while spraying off the line without spraying the entire 200 in one big hit and also a little more "friendly" on the stock LS1.
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Old Sep 3, 2010 | 01:36 PM
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You will be fine. The progressive wont tear up the Iceman or our newer lightnings solenoids.
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Old Sep 3, 2010 | 02:38 PM
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We also designed our solenoids to work with a progressive controller.
But like stated above, dont jet for 400 and run 25% all the time cause you may want to hit it all someday.
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Old Sep 3, 2010 | 03:14 PM
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This is great info here as this will be my next big mod.
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