Originally Posted by Sgreco27 (Post 845513)

This is interesting to me. My team used 5 foot lengths of the polyurethane belt and it needed to be at least cut 5% shorter to have proper tension. We powered the bottom rollers and had a roller at the top and two more idlers in between. The only problem we seriously encountered in prototyping was not enough tension, and with the pneumatic tubing, we simply could not get that tension. It is also important to keep in mind that we were using and FP with a 6:1 reduction. Our conveyor system was very fast and without proper tension it lends itself to belt slipping. We had 2 inch rollers as well.