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Re: servo jitter when running Jaguar on RS-775

Interesting.

As for induction from wire to wire, that's a definite no. The wire runs don't even come near eachother.
However, I suppose (if the 775 is shorted to the frame) it could be induction (or capacitance) from the frame onto the wire. I suppose the way to tell would be to power the DSC from a seperate battery, and see if the problem still persists.

Tom:
Yes, I ended up setting the Servos to "disabled" in Begin.vi. I had assumed they were initialized to that automatically, but apparentally not. (I'll admit the way I'm controlling them is kind of weird. Since we were prototyping our grabber using the FTC servo controllers, I made the FRC code use the same values, by converting the servo reference to a PWM reference, and setting that value directly. However, this does give me another advantage: I can disable the servo by setting it a PWM value of 0)
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