the conveyor is fast enough; its the bands that hinder the speed of the balls.
What is the reason for the 6 motor drive. if there isnât a reason you should use two of the motors to power your intakes and conveyor.
yes but it can always get faster. iâm working on a hood bot with 1000 rpm rollers
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how is this? I can see how the spin of the ball that the bands lead to would slow it down, but you could always make the rollers faster (although with only one motor worth of power probably not) to speed things up.
I think flaps are just not very good for the indexer and launcher systems, rubber band rollers are just always more efficient.
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id like to see that not burn out in 5 minutes
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yes big facts
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it dosnât burn out in 5 minutes it actually lasts for like ten. Matches are only 2 minutes.
true, you could just speed up the rollers, and it would be faster, (it would also burn a lot faster) but i donât see why you wouldnât want to take the bands off unless its a sizing issue.
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taking the bands of is a good thing to do i think if your motors donât burn out in less than ten minutes then your fine.
if your motors burn in 10 mins then you are going to spend way too much time replacing the burnt motors instead of practicing driving, which is vital this year.
1000 rpm rollers actually could work with proper build quality. I use an assortment of rollers from 600 rpm at the slowest to 1280 rpm for the launcher. Iâve run them for long periods of time in testing and they never burn out, so you could probably push it farther if you want to.
the rubber bands on the hood donât seem to really be slowing the ball any more than a hood with antislip or adhesive foam would, so they seem fine to me. The maintenance of having a bunch of rubber bands might be annoying and bands also look a lot sketchier, but performance-wise itâs probably very similar.
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the rubber bands donât effect much but the way they are placed can force the ball against the conveyor a little.
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on the launcher you could speed it up to 1000, but for the indexer, which i thought he was referring to, thats way too fast imo
you can never get way to fast. Speed is how 7k was crazy in skills last year.
I donât think youâd want to go beyond 1000 rpm on the indexer, not because it will burn out but because you lose control the faster you make it go. 600 is fine imo because over 600 rpm the rollers speeds arenât going to be your bottleneck.
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10rpm rollers are the meta 
i still think that its the bands that are the main cause of the slow scoring. it wouldnât be that much different than a mesh and lexan backed hood, but still slow enough where you can tell that the bands are slowing it down.
1727z how fast is your conveyor going?
the indexer is only 200 rpm and the intake system is only 333.
combine that with the smaller sprocket sized used, as well as the fact that flaps will limit your top speed more than rubber band rollers means that the conveyor is going too slow.
never mind i found it