[FTC]: 4 Stage Gear Train HELP!

[FLHSFTC]

1: 36 is actually too much, you don`t even need that much. 1: is pretty efficient because it can pretty much shoot over 5-6 feet, but less then 10 feet. I believe that if you should over that much, it would be considered a penalty. If you try to make the robot go for 1:9 ration on a shooter with only running 1 motor, it would not go as far as having two motors having the ration of 1:9. overall 1;36 is too much power 1:9 is just right.

[HAL3019]

Originally Posted by FLHSFTC

1: 36 is actually too much, you don`t even need that much. 1: is pretty efficient because it can pretty much shoot over 5-6 feet, but less then 10 feet. I believe that if you should over that much, it would be considered a penalty. If you try to make the robot go for 1:9 ration on a shooter with only running 1 motor, it would not go as far as having two motors having the ration of 1:9. overall 1;36 is too much power 1:9 is just right.

The way in which we are launching the balls calls for it, because we are trying to accelerate the ball using 2/3 of a wheel's rotation. Yeah... I know its a bit much, but we got it working around a week ago, we had to re-arrange the order of the gears in the train, plus we are working at maybe 50% power... so it should be 1:18 (we tried it, and it didn't have enough "weight" on the ball). Thank you all for your replies.

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