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Re: pic: Spectrum 3847 - 2017 CAD Model: Gamma Ray

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
I mean, if you grow your hopper out over the top of your intake, sure. But if you grow your hopper out in that direction, isn't that just going to stick out the same distance as your over-the-bumper intake? Which then isn't sticking out farther than your robot's frame anymore? Isn't that kind of defeating the purpose then?
I'm not sure I follow you now. If you expand your hopper when your intake goes over the bumper, then your hopper is not constrained by your frame perimeter anymore. Thus you're minimizing the effects of lost storage space and still getting your full width over the bumper intake, at the cost of now having to designing the whole expanding hopper thing.
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