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Originally Posted by jijiglobe
3) Hooded flywheel shooters put a backspin on your ball. Due to aerodynamics that I don't exactly understand, this means that the ball goes further, but it also means that if you hit the top of the goal, the ball has a high probability of rolling in. (hitting the top of the goal is far more common than the bottom because the robots are shooting up at the goal from below. |
All other things equal (specifically, tip speed / torque of the flywheel, and energy transfer between the wheel and the ball), a hooded shooter will throw a ball half as fast as a double wheel shooter.
For my team this was the biggest challenge with our shooter - actually getting it to shoot far enough to make a shot from the outer works was difficult with just one mini-CIM on the shooter. We probably could have done it with two, but then packaging became an issue.