What Shooter Design was Most Consistent

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Originally Posted by CalTran

Next question would be what you think would be the best approach to analytical testing? Some of our programmers are getting overwhelmed with exactly what to test. Ideally, we would like to pin it down to one independent variable (Whether it be the top rpm and change the bottom rpm to the accuracy, or set both rpms and find the corresponding distance, or something of that sort) and test from there.

For non-fender shooting, we found that top rpm = bottom/2 was nearly close to perfect every time. I hope that helps when you tune things.

Originally Posted by CalTran

When we attempted to create an entrance chute to reduce the feeding variability, it simply resulted in a drastic reduction of range (Down to less than 5 feet)

We squeeze the heck out of the ball just before we feed it to the shooter, using some bent polycarbonate and rivets (that is, not much weight). I can't say whether or not it works for you, but it seems to work for us. Consistency in feeding to the shooter is critical for accurate shooting as far as we can tell.

Originally Posted by CalTran

Finally, would it be worth it to scrap the quadwheel shooter all together and design a compression hood shooter in time for Oklahoma Regional (March 29th-31st)

I don't know that this is answerable by anyone on this forum... It depends on what your team can get to work well between now and then!