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Originally Posted by Thunder910
I think it's interesting how differently the two long-range shooter whose shooters I've seen approached the FCS concept. While 67 is using three banebots, 195 has a GIGANTIC wheel on a circular shooter. It's awesome.
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I can only talk to what we did. In our case, we were trying to keep the weight of the shooter down as much as we could, since we were going to be tipping the robot back to climb up the corner.
I'm not really sure how much weight savings we actually achieved, since I believe the shooter assembly (shooter, plate, frame, etc..) ended up weighing about 15lbs. So when you add up all the bearings, bearing blocks, wheels, and other parts the weight went up pretty quickly.
We prototyped multiple shooter configurations, but the linear style offered the best performance for us, given the packaging configuration we had to fit for the climber.
Once we added the third wheel, we really started to get the FC distance we needed. Without it (double banebot wheels) we were only getting about 40'.