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12-01-2013, 10:58

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Re: Best motor/gearing option to drive a shooter?

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Originally Posted by Ether

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Is consistency important to you? If you run it at free speed, there's no headroom for speed control.

This makes sense to me, but I couldn't explain to a mentor why you wouldn't want to run the motor at its free speed. Why wouldn't it be consistent at its free speed? Is it just because there isn't much torque at that speed, so the motor might slow down more when it shoots a frisbee?

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