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Re: Loading Station Wall Width Concern

Thanks for pointing this out, I had focused on the peg scoring area dimensions but not looked at the loading station as much.

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Originally Posted by Morse Code View Post
But remember that if you off set your gear collector to one side of your robot, you might not be lined up with the spring lift (depending on the size of your robot). If your gear collector is too far off set it might not be able to be near the spring, which is in the middle of the two barriers on the airship.
This is also important to note. Each face of the airship is about 40" wide, the same as the max width possible in the short volume configuration, and 10" out at the tip of the peg the barriers only give about 5" of space on either side of this width. This means a max width robot that offsets the gear storage/placing area more than 5" off center of the wide side will hit the barriers when trying to place a gear straight on. This would require offset gear holders to come in at an angle, or worst case be restricted to the one peg on the side of the airship that does not have a barrier opposite their gear placing side.

Wide robots will either need to funnel gears from a wide intake down to center, or have to choose loading stations and/or pegs they are unable to use.
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