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Unread 03-02-2017, 10:25
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Lots of people claiming, especially in a recent poll here of shooting 6-10 balls per second (bps) (or more!) with an accuracy of 70-100%. This is great, and if these teams achieve this then they should be proud!

However, being a little more halfway through build season, I can't imagine many teams have a competition/robot ready feed and intake system complete to pair with their shooter prototypes.

How many of these claims of these shooters are being optimally feed through a perfect gravity fed chute with a line of balls ready to go into their shooter?

Making a shooter which will shoot the balls at this rate has proven to be not overwhelmingly difficult, but do you have all the details worked out to FEED a steady 8-10bps to your shooter? This seems like it could be the bigger challenge
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