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Re: Ball Magnet

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Originally Posted by R.C. View Post
We were messing around with our roller yesterday and we using a drill that outputs about 1000-1500 rpms. We found out that the faster the roller the more backspin it puts on the ball. Therefore causing the ball to come back to the roller causing it to "stick"

We will be using 2 mabuchi's to power our roller.

-RC
Do you have a mock up or pic on how you are going to be using the mabuchi's? like a gearbox, etc.?

we are going to be working on this design type this weekend but we don't have a ton of resources and zero "extra" parts (no stock pile from previous years like veteran teams tend to have).
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