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Re: Shooting from over 18' out

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Originally Posted by falconmaster View Post
Cool, but it looks like the peak of your arc is significantly above the top of the goal. Do you have any way of avoiding the resulting "dead spot" in your range?

In terms of power, that looks pretty much exactly like our (4464's) pneumatic shooter; we're using four 1.5'' bore, 8'' stroke cylinders on ours, with the standard festo solenoids and a downstream tank for each cylinder.
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