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Festo
173179
Pneumatic valve VL-5/3E-1/8-P-B
The Festo 173179 is a pneumatic industrial component featuring a 5/3 exhausted valve function with a 17.8 mm width, 18 mm grid dimension, and 5 mm nominal size. Built with a piston slide design structure, soft sealing principle, and positive overlap lap, it supports a standard nominal flow rate of 350 l/min across a working pressure range of -0.9 to 10 bar. This UL-recognized unit utilizes direct piloting with an external pilot supply, mechanical spring reset, throttleable exhaust-air function, and reversible flow direction, operating under a 3 to 8 bar pilot pressure with a b value of 0.5 in any assembly position without manual override. Submit the exact part number, quantity, and application requirements to request a quote for this component.
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- Festo
- Part number
- 173179
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Technical Specifications
- Valve function
- 5/3 exhausted
- Type of actuation
- pneumatic
- Width
- 17.8 mm
- Standard nominal flow rate
- 350 l/min
- Working pressure
- -0.9 ... 10 bar
- Design structure
- Piston slide
- Type of reset
- mechanical spring
- Authorization
- UL - Recognized (OL)
- Nominal size
- 5 mm
- Grid dimension
- 18 mm
- Exhaust-air function
- throttleable
- Sealing principle
- soft
- Assembly position
- Any
- Manual override
- None
- Type of piloting
- direct
- Pilot air supply
- external
- Flow direction
- reversible
- Lap
- Positive overlap
- Pilot pressure
- 3 ... 8 bar
- b value
- 0.5
- C value
- 1.54 l/sbar
- Switching time off
- 22 ms
- Switching time on
- 6 ms
- Operating medium
- Compressed air in accordance with ISO8573-1:2010 [7:4:4]
- Note on operating and pilot medium
- Lubricated operation possible (subsequently required for further | operation)
- Vibration resistance
- Transport application test at severity level 1 in accordance with FN | 942017-4 and EN 60068-2-6
- Shock resistance
- Shock test with severity level 2 in accordance with FN 942017-5 and EN | 60068-2-27
- Corrosion resistance classification CRC
- 2 - Moderate corrosion stress
- Storage temperature
- -20 ... 40 °C
- Medium temperature
- -5 ... 50 °C
- Sound pressure level
- 75 dB(A)
- Pilot medium
- Compressed air in accordance with ISO8573-1:2010 [7:4:4]
- Ambient temperature
- -5 ... 50 °C
- Product weight
- 80 g
- Mounting type
- on manifold rail
- Pilot air port 12
- M5
- Pilot air port 14
- M5
- Pneumatic connection, port
- 1 Subbase
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