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Ball posession: Roller (ball magnet) or vacuum?

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View Poll Results: How does your robot posess the ball?
Roller (Ball magnet)		123	65.78%
Vacuum		35	18.72%
Armature		0	0%
We do not intend to posess the ball		11	5.88%
We did not ship a posession device, and will decide before competition		18	9.63%
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23-02-2010, 21:41

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Re: Ball posession: Roller (ball magnet) or vacuum?

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@ people using vacuums with those yellow funnels, where do you buy them? I looked around mcmaster but didnt see them...

Home depot is where we bought ours.

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Originally Posted by fuzzy1718

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to those using the vacums, how are you stopping the suction when you kick? or are you?

Just shutting off the vacuum prior to kicking equalizes the pressure fast enough that the ball will disconnect when kicked.

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