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Re: Team 2108 Video!! Powerful Shooter

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
Out of curiosity, what is your firing rate? That's a very neat shooter design - but I'm wondering how quickly you can cycle balls through it and maintain your accuracy.
If we want to shoot up close is has no speed up time so balls can fire one after another. With the longer ranges, it takes a small amount of time in between each shot but it is not very noticeable. If we used 2 fisher price motors to power it, it would be really fast firing rate, but we don't have to weight for it and we already used the other fp for the intake collector. To compensate we have slowed down the spiral to keep accuracy consistent.
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