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Re: Shooter Help for 2nd Year Team

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Originally Posted by launchloop17 View Post
2. From my measurements you have almost zero compression, we run our orange banebots wheels at 3/8" compression, but up to 1/2" works well.

3. I'm not sure how you are connecting to the CIMS, but I don't see any keys in there, are the wheels slipping on the shafts?
These seem like your two best bets to me. In addition to this, add something sticky to the wall opposite the wheels.

And one more suggestion, playing with wheel speeds can help a lot. A variable voltage power source is ideal, but a poor man might try wiring the first two CIMs in series and the last one in parallel. Or, mini Cims spin at ~6.2k rpm to the CIMS 5k and have the same mounting and shaft size.
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