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Talon not responding

I think we have everything set up for the Talons. Can someone confirm that the following is correct?

I have tested the motor as good. The Talon sits blinking orange, never confirming it is receiving signal from PWM.

Code:

package edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.templates;



import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.SimpleRobot;

import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.Talon;



public class AwesomOSimple extends SimpleRobot {



    Talon frisbeeIndexer;



    public void robotInit() {

        frisbeeIndexer = new Talon(9);

    }



    public void operatorControl() {

        frisbeeIndexer.set(1.0);

    }

}

Is there more needed than that? I feel like you have to enable it. I see there is an option to disable it (frisbeeIndexer.disable()). I've tried 0.9 and a simple 1, but nothing. Any thoughts?

I'm going to check that no one plugged something in backwards tonight, so that's still up in the air, I just wanted to cover the software.

Re: Talon not responding

operatorControl() is only called once. If you want to actually do something, you have to make a loop.

Code:

public void tele()

{

   frisbeeIndexer.set(1.0);

}





//Don't modify the following method

public void operatorControl()

{

 while (isOperatorControl())

 {

    tele();

    Timer.delay(3/1000); //this prevents the cRIO from becoming overloaded, especially if tele() is empty

 }

}

Having tele() as a separate method keeps things clearer and keeps inexperienced programmers from messing with something they shouldn't, but you're more than welcome to have everything in operatorControl().

Re: Talon not responding

Sigh.. Someone plugged in the Talon backwards. Lol. I had to restart the whole robot after the Talon was plugged in correctly to get it to respond happily. The minute I turned it around, it worked fine.

If you query my username, I think every question I have asked has been answered this way for the past 3 years.. Haha..

Thank you!