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[armyOFdarkness]

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[Phil Ross]

Originally Posted by armyOFdarkness

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have you guys had trouble indexing the orbit balls?

[zachjo]

Originally Posted by Phil Ross

have you guys had trouble indexing the orbit balls?

would it be possible to get a close up of the rollers or can you tell me how you made them, we are having problems keeping our belts in the correct positions.

thanks

[armyOFdarkness]

We haven't had any problems with ball handling. We squeeze the ball down to 7" diameter. The rollers are made of 2" ID pvc pipe (painted) with small grooves to hold the belts in. The pneumatic tubing spikes help hold the belts in place. We also have 7% length stretch on the belting. On the rear conveyor system we are also using pieces of the timing belt that came in the kit rivoted to the tube to help prevent the belts from sliding around. Hope this helps!

[RoboGeek99]

Originally Posted by armyOFdarkness

We haven't had any problems with ball handling. We squeeze the ball down to 7" diameter. The rollers are made of 2" ID pvc pipe (painted) with small grooves to hold the belts in. The pneumatic tubing spikes help hold the belts in place. We also have 7% length stretch on the belting. On the rear conveyor system we are also using pieces of the timing belt that came in the kit rivoted to the tube to help prevent the belts from sliding around. Hope this helps!

The bane bot gearboxes look like 4:1 ...or am i just hallucinating...we are using a 64:1 for our belt

[armyOFdarkness]

The front conveyor is 25:1 w/ RS545 motor, the rear is 20:1 w/ fischer price motor.

Originally Posted by RoboGeek99

The bane bot gearboxes look like 4:1 ...or am i just hallucinating...we are using a 64:1 for our belt

[Vikesrock]

Nice looking robot!

How do the balls funnel down from a 2 ball wide conveyor to a single shooter without jamming?

[VincentCS34F]

its a secret

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by armyOFdarkness

We haven't had any problems with ball handling. We squeeze the ball down to 7" diameter. The rollers are made of 2" ID pvc pipe (painted) with small grooves to hold the belts in. The pneumatic tubing spikes help hold the belts in place. We also have 7% length stretch on the belting. On the rear conveyor system we are also using pieces of the timing belt that came in the kit rivoted to the tube to help prevent the belts from sliding around. Hope this helps!

7% we only did 3% and they were bending our PVC like mad... We ended up switching to something different...

[Raptor2]

We're still kind of working on that.

[Raptor2]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

Nice looking robot!

How do the balls funnel down from a 2 ball wide conveyor to a single shooter without jamming?

We're still working on it.