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Originally Posted by BJC
-68's shooter. It has belts to feed it after the ball passes through the turret ring for consistant shooting.
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Sorry I'm so late (been on vacation), but I would be remiss if I didn't correct you here, and pass the compliments to Team 111 for (I think) actually doing what you described.
I wish we had a turret, but we don't. The fact that our shooter sits on a sprocket is apparently very deceiving to people. (Up close, the lack of chain or a motor and the presence of wires running between the teeth are dead giveaways) The shooter retains that sprocket because it works as a base plate just as well as anything else, and nobody could see any reason to replace it after the rotating turret idea was abandoned (at a competition nonetheless). For the rest of the competition season, the shooter sat on its sprocket, on its bearing, with a humble bolt scratched into--not even drilled through!--the mounting bracket to keep the whole assembly facing straight. After the World Championship, we retired the bearing and replaced it with 1x1 tube to maintain the same height, but the sprocket lives on!
To correct the rest of what you said, the real purpose of the bands is to increase firing rate, not maintain consistency (but we do have consistency measures). These are also a product of the post-build season, because the original plan called for the ball to be carried against a curved plate for something like 90 degrees by a dinky little Vex motor. You could take a nap between shots. The bands significantly shorten the distance the ball contacts those Vex wheels, effectively extending the shooter wheels downward.
P.S. I'm sorry for all the side notes and surprised that our shooter would get mention (even false mention) over all others.
P.P.S. I'm also sorry that your correction is incorrect.