3 Wire Solenoid

[Casa Fear]

I got a 24V solenoid that has 3 wires on it instead of 2 that I am normally used to.  The colors on the wire are Black, Blue, and Brown.  I thought Brown matched to Red and Blue matched to Black so I hooked up the solenoid with the Brown wire going to the V+ and the Blue wire going to OUT0 with the black wire not connected.  It didn't work. 

Any thoughts?

[reddragon]

look up the wiring on there( people who made it) website to make shure of the right connexions.

[BigRez]

I've read that the three-wire solenoids are externally switched.  One wire to ground (black?), one to hot for pulling the plunger and the other to hot for holding it.  The example I saw was for a car whereby the solenoid was switch from the ignition... one hot wire was for start position and the other for on position.

Can you post the manufacturer and model of the solenoid and/or find the documentation on-line?

[Casa Fear]

It is a Parker B310BC549C Pneumatic 24VDCSolenoid Valve
It says the connect ion is a 15mm 3-Pin DIN 43650C (Male Only)

Here is a link to a PDF about the valve
http://psv5.cadregister.com/parker/padata/73337263//AIR/G/06374001.pdf
This particular valve is on page 9.  On the Table of Contents is talks about the connectors on page 21 but the PDF only goes to page 17.

Here is a link to the valve on the parker website where I found the doco.
http://www.parker.com/portal/site/PARKER/menuitem.de7b26ee6a659c147cf26710237ad1ca/?vgnextoid=fcc9b5bbec622110VgnVCM10000032a71dacRCRD&vgnextfmt=EN&vgnextdiv=687577&vgnextcatid=2930317&vgnextcat=B3%20VALVE%203%20AND%204-WAY,%20(%20.75%20CV)#

Thanks for you help.

[Casa Fear]

I found this on another document regarding connectors.

Pin 1 = Brown Wire = Operating Voltage (+VDC)
Pin 4 = Black Wire = Output signal (N.O.)
Pin 3 = Blue Wire = -VDC

Here is the document, on page 21.
http://www.parker.com/literature/Atlas%20Cylinder/pdf/3ma/91-120.pdf

[Casa Fear]

For those curious, I just started pluging wires in and hoping I didn't smell smoke.  I got it to work by plugging in the black wire to OUT0 and the blue wire into V+