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Re: LabView Programming - Do we still need Watchdog?

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
Warning:
These Safety vi's force a particular style of coding and old code may no longer work correctly.
You can no longer set and leave a motor until the next change, for instance, in an autonomous flat sequence structure.
It needs to be set and reset at a fairly rapid pace, even if you're setting it to the same value over and over again.
Yep. This bit us the other day when I was leading the team's lead programmer through the "easy" way to write an autonomous routine. It took longer than I want to admit before I slapped my forehead and remembered about the safety timeouts.
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