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Re: pic: Custom Wheels
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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII View Post
You appear to have misunderstood me when I said "vast quantities of balls very quickly." Think 10 balls in a fraction of a second

We actually modeled our shooter using rotational momentum, and imagined that the balls being fired were "collisions" slowing the wheel down. Adding the flywheels greatly improved consistency. Recharge went from about 1 second down to like .2 seconds. Of course we'll have to see about my math

They weigh 2.5 lbs. each. We know how much the final bot will weigh from CAD and this is a perfectly acceptable amount for us.
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