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08-01-2012, 02:01

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Re: Ball Launchers? Ideas?

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Originally Posted by Sean Raia

I would stray away from that idea. Pneumatics (in my experience) are much better for power than for speed. Maybe use your pneumatics to load a spring?

Power is speed. And pneumatics do not have power, they have huge amounts of force, at the tradeoff of speed. Power = F x V, don't lose the value of a scientific term by colloquially equating it with something entirely different.

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