Thread: Getting more range out of a 4 wheel shooter
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Re: Getting more range out of a 4 wheel shooter
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Originally Posted by SuperNerd256 View Post
Why do you go through two reductions via gearboxes? For our shooter, we have our 775's going into our CIM-U-LATORs and then directly driving our wheels. We get perfect power, distance, and control over the ball, and have yet to find a problem.

Pro tip: If using this setup, never run the motors at 100% power. 85% power works beautifully, and won't destroy the motors (or the balls).
It wasn't really my decision. The impression that I have gotten from why that decision was made is that we had already made a shooter with CIMs going into the CIMple box and the person building it didn't want to take the CIMple box off of the bot. I had actually suggested removing the CIMple box from the equation but it was basically said that we didn't have time for "that type of change".
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