Thread: Odd PWM problem (Can't get full green)
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Re: Odd PWM problem (Can't get full green)
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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV View Post
This afternoon we'll have a scope and I can post more results. I'm also going to try to configure them as Victor objects in the code and calibrate to that. If more than one team is having this issues I wonder if it's a problem with the cRIO image itself or somewhere in the Jaguar definition in WPILIB.
You could try the PWM class with the setRaw method, sending values of 0 (full reverse) and 255 (full forward). The jaguar class limits the minimum value to 4 and the maximum value to 251. It may be that your jaguars are slightly out of tolerance and don't calibrate the difference away.