Our team has currently found a 4 inch compression to shoot the note furthest, but I was curious what results other teams had. Taking an inch from that halved our launchers effectiveness. Have your team had similar results?
We initially started with 1” compression, but found out by trial-and-error that 1/2” works best for us.
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Have you settled on 1/2 inch compression in a horizontal shooter configuration?
Yes, it’s still 1/2 inch on both our alpha and beta bot. Works the best for us.
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1/2in has worked well for us.
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Has anyone tested 1.75 inches between rollers - .25 inch compression? my team committed to it without a lot of testing. If so can you link any data you got? Thanks.
We just tested our shooter with 1.75 between colsons. Wasn’t very good. Was a lot of slippage. Note went the same distance at about half throttle as it did at full. After wrapping some duct tape around the wheels to close the gap, it shot considerably better. We will be switching to a tighter compression.
All depends on the setups I would think. We like .25" compression. It was way better than .5" for us. I’ve seen many examples of .5 working well for others.
Good luck!
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We are using 40a stealth wheels (3in dia) does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can expand them by a tiny bit should we need to? We don’t have access to any TPU printers which was my initial thought.
Thanks for the help.
We are using the VersaRoller Intake Tube with .25" compression between. Here is a video of it shooting
After all these days I still can’t get this image of 4" compression out of my mind. Early on we had to commit the various roller axles to certain spacings and subsequently had to adjust the various compressions (0.5" give or take) and slipperiness (from sticky to glossy smooth) of the rollers multiple times.
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There is no end of types of tape with all kinds of surfaces. If you want grippy, that 3M tape we got in the KOP is good stuff. Electrical tape comes in shiny smooth to friction tape.