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Re: Victor troubles

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Originally Posted by Camren View Post
Ok folks having some really wired problems with my victors to start off no their not brand new but they are from last year they are hooked up in the
12v power distribution spot and are connected using a pwm cable. but when i enable the robot the motors starts spinning in reverse when the joystick is in the 0 position when the joy stick is in the -1 position it stops and when its in the 1 position it goes forward im looking for some insite on what i can do to fix this
It sounds like they're waaaaaaaay out of calibration, or your code is whacked out. I'd suspect code first.

What are you using to program the robot? I'd use a printf() (or the equivalent for your programming language) to dump out what commands you're issuing the Victors in code to make sure it's doing what you want. If it is, then try calibrating them.

Out of curiousity, what are the lights on the Victors doing as this occurs?
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