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Re: [FTC]: Shooter Wheel Safety

A "three-stage gear train" with the gears we have should give you a 1:27 gear ratio.

In all the tests that i have done, I've seen that even a 1:23.xx ration using the 3" wheel was enough to project the ball beyond the 10ft shot distance limitation in the game manual. Not sure what you final release of the ball is, but you may want to re-design that so that you can slow down your shooting wheels.

Besides all of the safety risks...from your own observations you are already greatly increasing your own reliability risk. I would suggest you look at a re-design.
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