Thanks everyone for the input, I appreciate your comments. We (well, the pirmary member group on the team) will be heat treating the material before assembly just for this product, so at least variation will be something we can control and monitor.
Hello,
I am on a team designing on a solenoid valve, we have had issues with durability of the armature, so are testing a prototype configuration with an 8620 alloy armature instead of the Silicon Iron original armature. The armature is case hardened in either material.
Once concern we have...