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Re: Rapid fuel feeding into shooter

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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan View Post
25 in 2006 had a brilliant shooter and straight up dominated Aim High. Essentially they had a flywheel and a mill to feed the ball. Flywheel on a live axle, and then a mill that went around the flywheel on a dead axle, both were powered by different motors. The mill allowed them to control the out put of the balls effectively, and run it backwards if anything jammed. Take a look at any of their match videos.

We are currently working on a prototype that will shoot 3 balls wide with a mill that goes around it. Looking forward to the results.
I am a firm believer in the wide shooters. Some really basic prototyping (i.e. a plywood box and some broom handles with poly cord as actuators, all run on cordless drills) proved an efficient way to unleash the hoard, and that was just guessing where the actuators should be and relying on gravity. From the testing that I witnessed we sent 42 balls out in 3.7 seconds, not bad IMO.
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