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Re: Accuracy of single axis shooter

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It's important to have your feeder send the balls into the shooter in the same position each time, not try to make the shooter align the balls into its preferred track. This is a recipe for shots to come out crooked. (edit: To elaborate on this, consider that if your feeder does put balls into the shooter in slightly different places, you want them to come out perfectly parallel, so that their total inaccuracy is only that very small difference, not something much larger. I like having a consistent profile across the width of the shooter to help with this, although others will say two wheels with a space in between can work just fine as well.)
We had that issue and changing our feeder increased our accuracy significantly. Also you can try changing the compression/duration of contact of the ball by the wheel, the less compression by the ball, the less speed lost by the flywheel.
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