Flywheels and Shooter Wheels

[Dan_Karol]

Originally Posted by akoscielski3

I am confused as to what the difference is between a fly wheel and a shooter wheel??

The shooter wheel is an object that propels the ball from the robot. it may have some inertia but usually doesn't have very much.

A flywheel is a device thats only purpose is to store rotary inertia. It is usually heavy and has most of it's weight as far away from the center shaft as possible to maximize the inertia to weight ratio. Ideally the flywheel would be direct drive from the motor where the shooter wheel would be through some gear reduction.

On many teams these two objects are the same.



On an unrelated note, 1100 didn't need to use a PID control to get consistency in our shooter, just standard PWM drive through a jag.