How are people able to move the tray forward and have the rollers move away so that the cubes can stack?
We have tried 3 designs and none of them have worked 100%, they have only worked some of the time(if they work it’s by chance).
The main problem is that the chain catches on the way back and breaks which renders it useless for the rest of the game.
Or the tray can’t reach an upright position so that they can deposit the cubes.
Do people have similar problems and how did you fix them.
We use hinges and they’re tensioned with rubber bands so when we move forwards the hinges move out but the tension keeps them in when we intake
Does the tray roll on the rollers and what type of rollers do you have.
Does your chain ever break?
Our chain used to break so we switched to using an all tank tread chain. Also you need to make sure that when you move the tray forward the intakes can’t slip behind it or else it will snap.
You might want to try switching around the flap size and Experimenting with that and the distance between intakes to find a balance btw compression and the rollers pushing out
We have had a lot of issues with using the tray to push the rollers out. I would recommend spinning the intake out while backing up to release a stack.
Try making the bottom half of the 1st stage a 5 wide c channel. That way its narrow enough to pass through the rollers
There are lots of solutions depending on your design. My team’s is kinda jank, but we figured out something that kinda works (although it actually releases the rollers too quickly). Unfortunately we can’t give you anything concrete without pictures.
Just try stuff. They’re plenty of reveal videos you can view for ideas/methods. Also, it might take you several days (if your as inexperienced as I am)
Good luck
Our team doesn’t move the rollers, the bottem of our tray is just skinnier to let the intake fit. To release the cubes we just match the intake velocity to our drive velocity and It works well.
What kind of controls do you use.
Do your intakes have to deploy or are they fixed?
Can you send a link for this China style roller?
How many cubes can this style of roller support?
What you can also try is have the part of the ramp that goes between the rollers, (the neck area, as we call it in our club), be very thin, like a 3 hole c-channel. That way, it pushes out without having to move the rollers out the way. The cube would just slide out of the rollers as well.