We have been trying to decrease the time of our Fling bot takes to load the catapult after firing. It seems that others we see are ready to fire in 2 seconds while ours takes at least 6 seconds. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can change our set up to increase the speed? We thought gear ratios but we are unsure. Thank you
What I would recommend doing is setting on your vex code the velocity to 100% because that will greatly reduce the time it takes to bring the catapult down. I would not recommend using a gear ratio because it has less torque, therefore, it sometimes can’t bring the catapult down.
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Thanks. We didn’t think about this but will try it out tomorrow.
Test for additional strain. The longer the more resistance is being exerted upon the catapult most likely.
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