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Originally Posted by Budda648
This is why our team didn't make a basket like this. But I think of all the designs... #2 would be the most likely not to jam but would also hold less balls.
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I wouldn't offer guarantees on even that much. 1293 had our hopper shrunken down thanks to some acetate from another team to get the hopper one ball wide and stacked, and it still didn't work.
The solution, annoying as it may seem, is to completely eliminate the possibility of jamming. The best way, it seems, is to keep narrowing parts of the ball-moving process as upstream and easy to fix as possible. Look at 95's setup--three ball channels, each can only hold so many--but it doesn't jam. Or 1902's dumper, whose ball hopper stays at two balls wide the whole time through once it gets past the basket.
Is it possible to remove some of those side guides? Or do you have weight to add an agitator around where the jamming happens?