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Re: What's the best way to test?

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Originally Posted by RyanN View Post
The problem is that you are not constantly feeding the motor with a value. For safety purposes, motors are not allowed to continue their set value unless it is fed a value every so many milliseconds (I think it's like every 100ms).
By default, only the Drive motors have the safeties enabled. Unless you have explicitly activated the motor safety for other motors, it is perfectly reasonable to set them once and expect them to continue as commanded indefinitely.
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