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Re: Motor Used for Shooting

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
If you are operating the wheel at max motor speed there is no headroom to do closed-loop control.

So if you have a 775Pro geared at 3:1 and want to control the wheel speed at 6000 RPM you won't have a lot of battery voltage left to work with.



I'm not the one behind the controls for the robot, but I believe we're more interested in using the encoders for 1) making the two sides of the shooter differ by set amount to see how spin will affect trajectory and 2) monitoring when the flywheels get up to speed so that we can move the ball into the shooter the moment it's up to speed.
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