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Re: Designing a "belt + roller" conveyor for balls

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
We used this type of belt for our rookie 2012 Rebound Rumble robot to pick the basketballs off the floor and raise them to the cup which would lift them to the shooter. It was probably the most reliable system on the robot. I was not as involved that year, so I don't know why, but the belt was taped together rather than just held with the barbed connector. I suspect that it was because we were running it around about 1" diameter rollers (larger is recommended).
That's my exact situation. Last time we used them was on our 2012 rookie bot and they were also on < 2" diameter rollers and taped. I was wondering if anyone else had because like you I wasn't very involved with the lift and want to make sure we didn't just get lucky with it.
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