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Re: Single Motor Teleop/Autonomous being quirky.

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Originally Posted by Arkamond View Post
The Jaguar controller is outputted for half a second before it automatically flips off in Autonomous. In Teleop, only every other "enable" to the robot from the driver station in Teleop will allow the motor to be turned on via Joystick button. On the other times, the Jaguar turns on then blinks red and then goes back to being turned off, a couple clicks later and it then works, but it's still a large issue.
Can you describe the speed at which the jaguar blinks red? It may be a high current shutdown. Your mechanism may be right on the edge of tripping it at startup.