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Originally Posted by IKE
At least at Escanaba, your collector was slow*. I think it took about 3+ seconds to acquire a ball. Not sure if you put faster motors on for MSC (I believe it was window motors at Escanaba).
Also as others have stated, the pedestal style shooting mechanism could be bumped to cause you to drop the ball, and thuse require a new acquisition (see above). While this didn't occur often, it would occur anytime someone gave you a good hit, which in Elims is any time you get ready to shoot.
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Once again, thank you so much for your input. After Escanaba, we also realized that was too slow for this game. Since then we put a different motor on so now it intakes a ball at almost less than a second. The next week we went down to the Boilermaker regional and that really helped us, we actually made it to finals with Argos and the Earthquakers. Other improvements include adding a bungy cord to the PVC to secure the ball better and a new kicker arm. The ball does move around a lot but I can assure you, doesn't fall out when hit. Times that it does, usually only when the ball hasn't settled in the shooter which happens to even the best robots. And the new kicker arm is a lot more powerful than our old piece of strut with a pool noodle on it. It has made all our shots with under inflatable balls accurate as well as a lot more powerful with balls verging on the edge of too inflated. But again, all these comments have changed the way we look at things and are greatly appreciated!