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Originally Posted by RogerR
...traditional wisdom says that by adding rotating mass, you increase spun-up time (I assume this is what you mean by 'recharge'), though I doubt that an orbit ball would significantly effect the RPMs of these beasts.
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Yes that is correct.
Spin up time will be reduced, but less speed will be lost per shot, so it will be easier to maintain speed.
By constantly spinning the drum slowly we can ramp it up to firing power quickly whenever the need arises.
It is useful to reduce mass from the center of the rotating object, since this mass will not be spinning as fast as that on the edges. This is why we milled out the center. All the mass is on the periphery.
We actually built a very similar dual-ball shooter in '06 that suffered a great deal from recharge. Sitting on top of the ramp, it could only get the first two balls in before it lost speed.
