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Originally Posted by MStump
How did you guys do a double wide intake? My team is working on an intake mechanism for a summer project and we want to be able to do a 7 disc auto but cannot figure out what the most reliable way to do a double wide intake is. The main problem we have run into is figuring out how to get one disc to enter before the other.
We were thinking about doing it like Miss Daisy did where they have a spring-loaded intake with one side in the front having larger rollers than the other side.
Anyways please let me know what you guys did to solve this problem, thanks.
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The way we solved this problem is to have a varying diameter roller which can articulate on an axis. When it touched 2 disks at the same time, the disk on the larger diameter portion would get sucked in and lift the roller up so the other disk isn't getting engaged. When the first disk is in our system, the roller falls back down due to the weight of it and picks up the second disk. We had to play with the height of the roller off of the floor, the proportion of larger BB wheels to smaller BB wheels etc.
These pictures show the mechanism:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/team341...7632915395077/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/team341...57632545513277