Getting more range out of a 4 wheel shooter

[Mr. Lim]

What is the diameter of your wheels?

What is the tread material on the wheels?

How much are the balls being compressed as they go through your wheels?

How are you feeding the balls into the shooter? (by hand? consistent feeder mechanism?)

In order of magnitude, we saw four ways to get more distance on our shooter:

1) More linear velocity speed on the shooter wheels (spin them faster, or use bigger wheels)
2) Grippier tread material on the wheels
3) Higher compression of the balls between the wheels (to a point)
4) Making sure both sets of wheels contact the ball at the same time when fed

[eddie12390]

What is the diameter of your wheels? 8 inches

What is the tread material on the wheels? 2010 KoP wheels (Rubber?)

How much are the balls being compressed as they go through your wheels? ~3 inches

How are you feeding the balls into the shooter? (by hand? consistent feeder mechanism?) Consistent feeder

I talked to one of our mentors and he is worried that we will not have enough torque not having enough force on the ball to make any difference.

Video from yesterday can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-KTmL2Hc3U