I’ve seen some teams with 3 inch flywheel shooters with extremely fast shooting rate (4082B’s latest WR Skills for example). I was wondering what indexer designs would make for such a fast fire rate and how do they prevent the flywheel from losing speed and firing in a straight line from long distan…

Hello, there are many designs you could choose from some being better than others. It falls down into two sections pneumatic indexer or motor indexer. Motor indexers are almost always going to be faster and more consistent and faster than pneumatics, but that involves sacrificing a motor witch mos…

4082B uses a motor indexer hooked up to flexwheels and spin them in reverse to shoot. This is very good for driver controller but can be tricky for auto, This is why i recommend a liner puncher because it can be very quick or slow. I’m a bit confused what you mean by this, can you clarify? How is…

Yeah, of course! If you need anything else just keep me posted.

Watching these videos will give you a better explantion than i could put in words. I would advise against doing it this way just because it can be very finicky to get right. If you have a significant amount of time go for it. [Vex Robotics Spin Up Early Season Reveal | 21417A 🏁] …

Using a 2 motor flywheel will improve your rate of fire as it reduces your rpm drop. With your motor distribution, I would recommend connecting your intake and roller using sprocket and chain which frees up an extra motor for the flywheel. A good example of this motor distribution is MENTORBUILT

The only problem with this is that if you don’t have pneumatics you need one of those motors for an indexer.

Yes, 4m drive, 2m flywheel, 1m intake/roller, 1m indexer. If you have no pneumatics you could ratchet the indexer to also trigger expansion.

Or just do a 1m flywheel with 1m indexer. Leaves a motor for expansion.

We use a 1 motor flywheel and find that we have to hot swap it out after every match because of overheating which might be too resource intesive for some teams.

Our 1m blue cart flywheel doesn’t heat up that bad.

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Lots of alternatives here: