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Re: What margin of error is tolerable in FRC?

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
I let the wheels run, on blocks, at a constant PWM value for 5-10 minutes at a time and plotted all the data points on Excel and got the average RPM and divided by the range of values. And now I think about it, that is not the correct way to measure the MoE...

Just a heads up... the drive train, the sensors and the software are a complete system. The system will behave very differently with no load (sitting up on blocks). In general running it on the ground dampens the response a bit and makes the system more stable. Your error bars should decrease.

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