Flywheel shooter
Calculator 5
Where the flywheel's energy goes
Example inputs; the calculator updates these with yours. Imperial first, metric in parentheses.
Example inputs from the calculator defaults. Losses ignored.
What the shooter looks like
A belted flywheel spins up, then hands energy to the game piece under the hood.
Schematic, not to scale.
Spin-up reaches about 3438 rpm in 0.93 s
Failure line appears once the allowable is verified.
Allowables pending. No verified allowable applies yet, so this is not a pass or a fail.
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How this works
Loads come from inertia: a hard push to spin up, and the wheel pushes back when the motor brakes.
Stored energy can drive torque back through the chain in reverse.
Coast versus brake mode. Compare stop time and compute bore torque for each.
Estimates for learning. Losses are ignored. Verify the numbers before relying on them.