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Re: pre-charged Pneumatics
FIRST provided some good safety guidelines for precharged devices (and this forum came up with some more) a couple years ago for the trackball launchers.

Mind you... if your ball kicker has as much energy stored up as a trackball launcher, you ought to be able to kick balls up into the stands.

My estimate so far is that we are using about 1/4 the force and about 1/2 the stroke on our pneumatic kicker that we did on our pneumatic launcher.

Jason