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Re: Help feeding from stack of 4 discs

We had a similar experience with the disk stack jammimg when the bottom disk is indexed to our shooter wheel. For us it was a fairly simple fix, we attached a back pivot mounted short stroke cylinder to our hopper side that get extended prior to the disk flippers. The cylinder has a small wedge on its rod to ride up the side of the lowest disk and lifts/jams the upper disks to the side wall and relieves all pressure and interfence from the upper disks on the lower disk. We fire the side cylinder first and then 200ms later we fire the flipper cylinder to launch the disk and simple retract both to allow the stack to drop and then repeat the sequence.