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Re: Maintaining perfect control of mecanums using encoders?

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Originally Posted by BBray_T1296 View Post
I was referring to the PWM signal exiting the sidecar (or what the code SAID was exiting the sidecar). We did some testing last year involving a CIM in a KOP CIMple box, (yeah it isn't free speed I know, but was otherwise unloaded) Victor 884, a Talon, some incremental software (push a button to add .1 to the PWM value), and a 120fps GoPro
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Originally Posted by BBray_T1296 View Post
If you measured an unloaded CIM running at "50%" PWM, you will find it attains a RPM far greater than 1/2 of its RPM at 100% PWM
Not to beat a dead horse, but are you saying that you observed ^this^ with a Talon as well as with the 884?

Team 1718 test, unloaded output voltage vs PWM command for 884 and Talon.

If you still have the actual data, would you please post it?

BTW, how did you use the GoPro to measure speed? At 5000/4.67 RPM, 1/120 of a second is 1/7 of a rev. Did you put a circular protractor on the output shaft?



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