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Re: Best motor/gearing option to drive a shooter?

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
FYI, Team 2073 found that above a certain wheel speed, the frisbee exit velocity actually decreased.

This is definitely interesting, though they're using (from what I can tell)
8" Plaction Wheel from AndyMark while we're using a rubber wheel which may be turned to better fit the frisbee so I guess we'll have to build the belt/sprocket mockup before we can really test what the effective speed is.