Junkyard Challenge C

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Gah......Well I guess adding height is a lot easier than cutting.....So how is the height determined then? Supposedly its dist between low point of coint opening and the surface where the ad rests on.. Can you add a 60 cm of wood underneath your device to get it to the max of 100 cm? Or do you have to remake the ad so that you incorporate that extra 60cm of height increase............I hate this....

[jazzy009]

we put ours on en elevated platform. Our coin slot was the top so im not sure if they measure from the bottom to the coin slot or to the highest point. for adding weight try to make the add-ons as significant as possible...if that makes sense. that way you can at least argue it to the judges.

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how is coin slot defined? What if you have a slide? will coin slot be determined at the top or at the bottom of the slide?

[wlsguy]

[(100 - |Height – 100|) x Total Value]/50 + bonus seconds

^------Isn't that the scoring formula?

So wouldn't a smaller sorter be advantageous? Lets say your height was 1 then your score would be........wait a second let me reread the rules....... If I'm wrong.....I just wasted 1 and a half hours trying to drop our machine's height.

We thought that shorter was better until we realized that the |Height – 100| was absolute value. This makes 1 meter the target number . It turned out it was a whole lot easier than making it a zero.

Anyway, aim for 1 meter.

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could you elaborate when you mean by aim for 1 meter? I can't really find that part where it says you need 1m? I understand that the "height" is supposed to be as close to 100cm.. Oh crap 100cm=1m.........I knew that.......

[sciencegeek100]

[(100 - |Height – 100|) x Total Value]/50 + bonus seconds

^------Isn't that the scoring formula?

So wouldn't a smaller sorter be advantageous? Lets say your height was 1 then your score would be........wait a second let me reread the rules....... If I'm wrong.....I just wasted 1 and a half hours trying to drop our machine's height.

no becauz its H-100 so... 99-100=-1, 45-100=-55, if its high scores height is

[sciencegeek100]

how is coin slot defined? What if you have a slide? will coin slot be determined at the top or at the bottom of the slide?

dont u define the slot yourself... our is made to split off certain ones high or low on ramp... with set coin value in each of 4 containers....

[sciencegeek100]

Can it really be anything?? and does it have to be directly use in the sorting??? if its a part that we are actually using can we just replace it.?

[sachleen]

how is coin slot defined? What if you have a slide? will coin slot be determined at the top or at the bottom of the slide?

dont u define the slot yourself... our is made to split off certain ones high or low on ramp... with set coin value in each of 4 containers....

Think about it this way, you need to dump the coins into a container so your device can sort them. I would say the 'coin opening' is the part where the container you dump your coins into opens up to dump them into the device.

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I'm sending in a rules clarification just to be safe.