Hey guys,
I can't tell you what I am working on, yet, at least. However, I can ask for your advice on the general subject.
Here is my idea. I'll use a simple model to help everyone out with my concept.
You are building a tennis ball cannon, like a potato launcher. The thing shoots damned fast, let's say it is capable of like 50 tennis balls a second for a firing rate. Unfortunately, gravity is capped at 13 balls a second.
So, here comes my idea. Say you have a big tennis ball - holding container. You fill it with tennis balls, and then pressurize it using a compressor. When you release the valve where the balls slide into the cannon's firing chamber, the high pressure would rush to low pressure, "sucking" a ball into the chamber at a much faster rate that gravity.
Is it plausible to have this? Would it even work that way? Also, would it be possible for the valve to close, the chamber to pressurize, the valve to open, the ball to be released, etc. at a high rate of speed? Say, like 40 balls a second? Or, would it take way to long to pressurize the chamber? Say the chamber was very small (10 inches by 5 inches at most)?
I know there is a lot of brain power on these forums, I appreciate any help you guys can give me. Also, slug toy, I'm counting on you to pull an equasion out of nowhere and use it to explain my ideas.
EDIT: Crap diagram:
Thanks everyone!