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

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Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay View Post
The balls are 5" in diameter. This means you can have a 4" collector wheel/drum, bring your hopper out to the outside edge of those wheels, and still have your collector touch the ball before your hopper touches the wall. If you make your collector smaller in radius, your hopper well be even further away from the wall when the ball gets collected.
I guess it depends on how much you can compress the ball with your intake. We have been using a rigid collector and found that it works best with surprisingly little compression, so we are mostly "on top" of the ball. This made it a bit trickier. You still touch the ball before the wall but it's a bit closer than I'd like for my team's particular design choice.

I'm sure you guys have done your research and totally know what you're doing here, and I don't mean to doubt that. Just trying to share a data point.
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