My team’s flywheel struggles to get the ball over the high bar and into the goal. Yesterday, when we finished making the flywheel, it was easily able to clear the bar. However, 20 minutes into testing on the day we finished building it, one of the motors got very hot and the flywheel slowed down. We replaced the motor, and it started doing fine again. Today, we adjusted the angle of our flywheel to try to replicate the strategy used in this video where the flywheel is at an almost vertical angle and the bot runs into the wall:
When we tried it, the flywheel gradually got slower the longer we tested. We put in fully charged batteries, and it didn’t change anything. We put the flywheel back at its original angle and it was sitll not shooting far. After waiting an hour and coming back, the results were the same. Do we need to change the motors constantly for the flywheel to work, or is there another solution? We might need to get new batteries, we’ve had the same few for a while. We have the same 1:15 gear ratio for the flywheel as @FRC973. Did you guys also have to change out motors frequently?
Thank you