pic: Custom Wheels

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Originally Posted by squirrel

We have a very low inertia shooter driven by one CIM with about 1.5 reduction, and we don't have any trouble with shooter speed dropping when it shoots out 5 balls in rapid succession on full speed. We do notice that the motor slows down a bit when we have the speed reduced for shorter range, but I think if we get a speed sensor on the shooter wheel and set up a feedback loop to keep speed constant, it will be fine.

Very nice shooter wheels! what's the weight?

You appear to have misunderstood me when I said "vast quantities of balls very quickly." Think 10 balls in a fraction of a second

We actually modeled our shooter using rotational momentum, and imagined that the balls being fired were "collisions" slowing the wheel down. Adding the flywheels greatly improved consistency. Recharge went from about 1 second down to like .2 seconds. Of course we'll have to see about my math

They weigh 2.5 lbs. each. We know how much the final bot will weigh from CAD and this is a perfectly acceptable amount for us.