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Re: Competitive Intakes

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Originally Posted by ToddF View Post
We tried the trick of angling the intake roller so when encountering two disks one gets sucked in first. This ended up making the single disk pickup less reliable.
You probably would have had to compensate by leading with the side where the roller was lower.

Honestly, I never considered picking up two discs at a time. I made the opening 16.5 inches (quite wide for the purpose) to accommodate a disk coming in from any number of given angles. I was just assuming that our elevator (or disk transport) would be build fast enough to process one after another. I will try to get some video up soon.
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