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Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:09:39 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Anders Isaksson wrote:
> Steve Hassenplug wrote:
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> > By design, all the balls go in one end of the GBC, and come out the
> > other. For the "throughput zones" to work, there must be a way to
> > get some balls from the middle of the GBC, around the slower modules,
> > and to the end.
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> What about a 'splitter' with two outputs (nominally 0.5 bps/output) and a
> 'joiner' for combining the two streams later on?
Another thing we might try is to implement this splitter at the junction of the
throughput zones to catch any ball overflow from the leaky bucket module. Then
this shunted ball flow could be loaded onto several train cars and haulled
around the track to the high zone side.
Another idea I thought of was that last year's BF contraption probably wasn't
running at full capacity due to the slower/problem modules. This would reduce
the frequency of hopper overflow in this scenario. However we do it, we need a
plan for ball flow regulation, and I have a couple more ideas than this. Does
anyone else?
Dave H.
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 | | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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| (...) I guess I don't understand what you mean by a leaky bucket module. I'm imagining something that would work well for "smoothing" the flow, but it will require the output to match the average input. (...) Last year, one section of the GBC was (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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| (...) Or to put it another way, use a GBC train system to handle 0.5 bps at a splitter module, so that downstream of the splitter the thinned stream would be 0.5 bps. This would seem to require (a) a dedicated train (& room for it), (b) a splitter (...) (18 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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