Hmm.. I'll keep that in mind. I'm pretty new to this so I'm not sure what MY type motors are. Can you expand a bit or share a link for a similar motor? I'm using this one www.jaycar.com.au/standard-high-power-d-c-motors-10200-rpm/p/YM2776?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD0dvLaGLbAB1jLqHS1a39LRgk4bq&gclid=Cj0KCQjwv7O0BhDwARIsAC0sjWONm4Av7aNDAYK659hgKT5wC6Lre8E8AX30A8oGSXYNgO5b-SSkiBgaAkwCEALw_wcB
I understand the purpose of the finger not allowing two balls to fall. What is the purpose of the side bits you stuck on and why the extra raised bits in the middle? What did you do to stop the general jams due to many balls sticking and motor not strong enough? Do the extra bits help that? I cant see how. Only extra bits that balls can jam against.
Thanks for your comment mate, appreciate it. The side wall projections and the raised projection on the disc bed are to aid in preventing the balls from just sliding. It's a bit hard to explain in words but what I noticed was with more balls in the container, the finger projection alone doesn't do a good job with pushing balls off of each other. The side projections help with pushing the ball off of the container walls and into the holes when balls are stuck in a wired way like 2 or 3 of them over the hole. With our the side projections the balls never get knocked over until they hit the finger projection. So they kinda help with a higher success rate of balls in the holes bedore they arrive at the finger projection. The raised projection helps with moving the balls when there are lots of them in the container. The weight of 30 or more tennis balls means the disc would just slip over the balls without that raised projection bit. Not that it won't catch any balls, just that it would be random resulting in infrequent balls getting dropped. I guess the short of it is that with these projections, I noticed a higher rate of balls getting dropped down the hole in a more consistent manner. I'm sure with more testing and different designs this can be done without that but I'm happy with the way it's working now.
The jam was mainly because of two balls falling at the same time and the 2nd balls getting caught between the disc and container When I added the finger projection it went away. As for the projections, I did notice balls getting jammed but the when I smoothed the corners they didn't.
And for hopper motor i recommend car window motor. Might give a bit more oomph to knock out jams.
Probably right. But I think it will only give you two positions I.e right and left. Which is not bad but a bit limited.
I will try a hopper with flexible walls too to aid in jamless operation. Either springed box wall system or a material like polyyester.
What I've seen is when the hopper has funnel shaped wall it's easier on the spinning disc.
Also I found the 775 motors a bit too weak. I recommend the MY type motors for durability as well.
Hmm.. I'll keep that in mind. I'm pretty new to this so I'm not sure what MY type motors are. Can you expand a bit or share a link for a similar motor?
I'm using this one
www.jaycar.com.au/standard-high-power-d-c-motors-10200-rpm/p/YM2776?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD0dvLaGLbAB1jLqHS1a39LRgk4bq&gclid=Cj0KCQjwv7O0BhDwARIsAC0sjWONm4Av7aNDAYK659hgKT5wC6Lre8E8AX30A8oGSXYNgO5b-SSkiBgaAkwCEALw_wcB
I understand the purpose of the finger not allowing two balls to fall. What is the purpose of the side bits you stuck on and why the extra raised bits in the middle? What did you do to stop the general jams due to many balls sticking and motor not strong enough? Do the extra bits help that? I cant see how. Only extra bits that balls can jam against.
Thanks for your comment mate, appreciate it.
The side wall projections and the raised projection on the disc bed are to aid in preventing the balls from just sliding. It's a bit hard to explain in words but what I noticed was with more balls in the container, the finger projection alone doesn't do a good job with pushing balls off of each other.
The side projections help with pushing the ball off of the container walls and into the holes when balls are stuck in a wired way like 2 or 3 of them over the hole. With our the side projections the balls never get knocked over until they hit the finger projection. So they kinda help with a higher success rate of balls in the holes bedore they arrive at the finger projection.
The raised projection helps with moving the balls when there are lots of them in the container. The weight of 30 or more tennis balls means the disc would just slip over the balls without that raised projection bit. Not that it won't catch any balls, just that it would be random resulting in infrequent balls getting dropped.
I guess the short of it is that with these projections, I noticed a higher rate of balls getting dropped down the hole in a more consistent manner.
I'm sure with more testing and different designs this can be done without that but I'm happy with the way it's working now.
The jam was mainly because of two balls falling at the same time and the 2nd balls getting caught between the disc and container
When I added the finger projection it went away.
As for the projections, I did notice balls getting jammed but the when I smoothed the corners they didn't.