Thread: Any idea for how many balls the boilers can hold?
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Re: Any idea for how many balls the boilers can hold?
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Originally Posted by mman1506 View Post
From purely speculation I'd bet that the goal can handle at least one bins worth (~50-60) of balls in each goal at a time which seems like a reasonable maximum amount of balls for one robot to hold. From the video the return mechanism looks like it can run at a rate of about 10 balls per second. Considering that fuel that has not be counted after tele op will not be scored It seems like it would be a somewhat poor idea to put in more than it can count in a 10 second period. I can't find mention of capacity outside the team videos so it's probably a good question for the Q&A.
The manual disagrees with your estimate from the video.
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Originally Posted by 3.11.4 Boiler
A BOILER processes FUEL in to steam at an average rate of five (5) FUEL per second per GOAL, but actual rate is dependent on the amount and packing of FUEL in the GOALS (i.e. the tighter the packing in a GOAL, the faster the FUEL processing rate).
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