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Re: help, our wheels dont spin at the same speed

Make sure your program is being told whether you're using Victor or Jaguar speed controllers. If the motor control code thinks it's controlling the wrong kind, you'll have a built-in discrepancy between forward and reverse speeds. I assume your motors are mounted so that the ones on the left side of the robot turn in the opposite direction from the ones on the right side of the robot, and at low speeds that would definitely show the symptom you describe.

What language are you using to program in?