And another issue (as E’s driver) is that because the motors burn so quickly from occasionally fighting each other, it was impractical for the lift to be manual, so we relied on lift presets, making adjustment in lift height impossible during match
In theory, yes, this is something we looked into but practical space and air consumption limitations along with the thing already being super heavy just added to the ultimate conclusion that it wasn’t worth it.
Because our differential causes varied but usually slow conveyor speeds, we decided on the plexi circle hood design. The key was lining up the central axis of the tube that the hood created with the post of the mobile goal (so if the post was longer it’d stay right in the middle of the hood all the way through). Aside from that, we used two zip ties that are secured around a standoff inside the hood and then go out through the hood and are capped by a second ziptie head. That forced the rings to smoothly realign to drop straight onto the goal.
