Thread: Led Tape Control
View Single Post
  #14   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 17-01-2011, 10:32
Steve Warner Steve Warner is offline
Controls / Programming
FRC #0234 (Cyber Blue)
Team Role: Mentor
  
Join Date: Feb 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Indiana
Posts: 41
Steve Warner is an unknown quantity at this point
Re: Led Tape Control
While the Spike has 4 output states, last year the WPILib C++ Relay class only allowed 3 states. The state where both outputs were switched to +12v was not allowed. I guess they did not consider it useful. In the off-season we tried including the Relay class code in our project and modifying it to allow the 4 states and it worked. I have not seen the source code for 2011 (is it available?) but I am hoping they changed it to allow all 4 states. I don't know how LabView or Java work.