Catapult lower ball help

VEX V5 General Discussion General Forum

Riptide December 13, 2018, 7:47pm 5

bckreddy:

Catapult experts - need help. We are using a 2 ball catapult … the top ball is fine wrt to power, but the bottom ball lacks power and cannot tilt the flag. I understand that based on physics, the outer ball should have more power. In slow-mo it shows that the lower one is hitting the top one soon after release … which may be affecting it’s power and angle. Any ideas or thoughts ?

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Maximizing Efficiency of 2-Ball Catapult

VEX V5 General Discussion Technical Discussion

We plan on making a two ball catapult and already have a few prototypes but I’ve seen videos such as 240p’s catapult that only needs about 4 rubber band to shoot far enough. Our best prototype had around 10 and the motors could barely pull it...

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