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Update
I ran my first dry test with 800 bioballs and the results were less than spectacular. Things moved OK at first and then began to tighten up after a few minutes. I opened things back up and found that the balls seemed to be “bonding” to each other, like atoms forming a molecule. First they would pair up but when they locked the third ball into their “molecule” things really got tight. They became very dense and difficult to drive around the system. The belts started slipping and the motor labored. The bad thing is that the 800 bioballs barely filled about 1/3 of the cylinder. That means I will need about 2400 to completely fill it. I’m going to move on to the water test in the hope that the load will dramatically decrease once they start to float.
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