We were having some issues with intaking cubes and tried fixing changing our intake motors from 200 rpm to 100 rpm. that didn’t fix the problem then we did something else which did fix it. best word i can come up with to describe it is “vestigial” and will stay that way until i overcome the laziness to unscrew the motors and replace the gearsets.
but the thing is that i heard that some teams are like,“yo you guys, 100 rpm is the way to go” and when i look at it, it’s super slow. i’m not sure.
I’m just wondering what people are running and why and if you could do the poll, that would be great
I think the intake has to do more with the compression on the cube (if I’m saying that right) more than the rpm. If you can’t hug the cube tight enough, or your intake is too wide/thin, than the RPM of the motors won’t change the outcome that much.
After messing around with the intake, my team found that the 100 RPM motor cartridges gave enough torque to push 7+ cubes into the tray, speed was not an issue. But the main problem that it sounds like you are having is a compression issue. At first my tray could only get 4 cubes, but after playing around with the compression and intake angle, we basically doubled that number of cubes that we could take in.
