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Re: How do you shoot so fast?

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Originally Posted by JCharlton View Post
Another thing to consider is reducing the amount of energy lost per ball. If your system compresses the ball a lot during a launch, more energy will be lost - which needs to be replaced.
I'll second this. Our initial prototype would audibly slow down when we shot a single ball because we had too much compression involved. With our final design, we have less compression on the ball and a more compliant shooter wheel. I don't think we've done the PID loop for it yet (waiting for some new sprockets to get in so we can test different ratios), but we can gravity feed in a line of balls (maybe 5 balls/second) with no noticeable change in the wheel speed or power of the shot.
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