Thread: Trouble getting ball from pick up to shooter.
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Unread 14-02-2012, 14:10
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does what needs to be done.
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Re: Trouble getting ball from pick up to shooter.
Could you please describe your current setup? As it is pretty much Week 6, I wouldn't want you to have to make any major changes.

Our team was having a similar problem. We had a conveyer belt picking up balls from the floor, and delivering them to the shooter intake. Our shooter has a part-circle where the ball travels, with a wheel in the center to power the ball. In short, the conveyer belt wouldn't move the ball far up enough to get picked up by the shooter wheel.What we ended up doing is moving our shooter assembly forward an inch so that the shooter wheel would grab the ball as soon as the ball reached the top of the conveyer belt.