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Re: Best motor for direct drive shooter wheels

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Originally Posted by viggy96 View Post
At its full RPM, without gearing.
Speaking from experience, that is a very effective way to ensure you never make the same shot twice.

One important variable to consider is that battery voltage will change throughout the match (not to mention between different matches and batteries), thus changing the motor RPM, and consequently, where the ball goes when you shoot it.

Unless you're shooting at such a close range it doesn't matter, or such a high speed that the ball is basically ballistic (something I would think would be frowned upon by the refs, not to mention difficult to achieve without any gearing), you need to have a bit of margin in your RPM and a closed loop program to compensate for battery voltage changes.
There are a ton of sensing options available, and plenty of stock code to make them work.

Last edited by cbale2000 : 17-01-2016 at 01:10.