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Re: Code Check

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Originally Posted by WizenedEE View Post
Also, the rules say that you can have energy in the form of compressed air on the robot. They say nothing about how that compressed air got there. It would be easiest, though, to just turn on the robot in the pits and have it charge up. Then replace the battery if you really need to.
Don't the safety inspectors check to see if the air compressor given with the kit is 'safe' if you have any pneumatics on there?

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Originally Posted by MaxMax161 View Post
To my knowledge the pressure switch returns a DIO boolen value. I have been told by our team's pneumatics crew that a pressure switch that told told you more would be really expensive and because of some pneumatics rules would be useless anyway.
Most definitely. The switch is 100% digital. Being the coder, communications analyst, mechanic, electrician, and pneumatics guru of the team (did I get all positions that don't require talking to other people? ), I know that the switch returns a digital value, and there would really be no purpose in having an analog switch. It wouldn't be too pricey, just pointless.


Back to the ultimate question though, does my code look good?

I also noticed a Sync Group lead on the Set Output VI. Will this allow me to have those motors work in unison? If so, how do I use it?

Also, finally, Error In and Error Out. What do these do for me and do I need them? I understand they can help control which code starts first, but I thought the DevRefs would take care of that.
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