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Originally Posted by dtengineering
So while I fortunately/unfortunately don't have a robot/team to experiment with, I'm reasonably confident that two FP's, properly arranged and geared, should have good range and repeatability when configured as a vertical shooter.
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So far with our testing, your hunch is pretty reasonable. Right now we're hitting 15ft with a 3" radius grouping over 10 balls with 2 fisher prices. The FP's are mounted to a 3:1 planetary, and are both attached to a CIMple box. We can reach out and hit 20ft max. I'm confident in that range with the hood we're using on our competition robot, but I doubt we'll ever attempt to score from that range. It's pretty much a guarantee to hit from the fender, so there is not much reason to not use it.
Right now our plywood and polycarb hood with a shooter wheel thats on some very poor bushings is too rough of a mockup to give entirely concrete results to say that a single wheel hooded shooter can hit from half court reliably, but if I was to give a guess, i'd say you'll see a few robots at each regional that are entirely capable of hitting from half court on a consistent basis.