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Re: Shooter vs Dumper Trade Study

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Originally Posted by Goldeye View Post
The low friction and thus low acceleration minimizes the effect of these problems.
If your shooter has a moderate speed (8ft/s), then a robot just 10ft away could accelerate hard enough to be 1.5ft away from where you expected it to be (if you assume constant velocity). If you add in the inevitable imprecision of an orbit-ball shooter, the amount of balls you'd get in would be low.

A powered dumper seems to be the way to go.