How to set the deadband in motor vi

[RickErmer]

How do you set the deadband in motor vi? I would actually like to set a non-symmetric deadband, but can't figure out how to set one at all.

Thanks,
Rick
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[Greg McKaskle]

If you are talking about setting the motor controller's deadband, it can probably be done, but I'm not familiar with it. You can get the same effect by putting a deadband inline before the call to the motor. The deadband implementation will be some comparisons that select zero or the number depending on a comparison. The real LV control toolkit ships a deadband VI, but I couldn't find it when doing the servo stuff, so I wrote my own. If you need it much, you may want to write your own as a subVI. That way you can send in one limit, two limits, etc.

Greg McKaskle