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Originally Posted by Annatreptic
They were extremely inflated at teh Glacier Peak PNW regional as well. So inflated in fact, that it started to continuously stall our motor and wouldn't allow us to gather the balls at all. We want to put some slop in our pneumatic mounts to our arm to try to fix this problem, any other teams done things to help this problem?
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Last week, 4183 lengthened their pickup arms an inch to allow the more-inflated balls to fit without stalling the motor.
Measuring the pressure would require a special fitting or gauge, although it wouldn't be too hard to make something to do it. 1/4" pneumatic tubing fits into the inflation hole in the ball.
The extent of wrinkling at the seams of the ball gives an indication of how full it is...until the wrinkles go away entirely, then who knows?
The balls aren't exactly round, either...they're sort of cube shaped.
I think this is a game where you need to take a lot of effort to make sure your robot will work with the game pieces, whatever they end up being like at the competitions. If you didn't, you're going to have problems. The low goal is a good option if you can't shoot into the high goal reliably.