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Re: Allowing the Ball into the shooter

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Originally Posted by sanddrag
We use a globe motor with an arm on it, but that was giving us some jamming problems too. A servo does seem a bit small/weak for the job though.
Actually they work very well. You might need two if you are looking at a big load though. We did two servos 7" apart with photo sensors in between. We found that under a real bad load the plastic disk we mounted to bent a bit but we strengthened it.
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