View Single Post
  #5   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 29-01-2014, 00:01
afclsn afclsn is offline
Adam Claussen
AKA: Adam Claussen
FRC #4474 (Silver Circuit)
Team Role: Mechanical
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Rookie Year: 2013
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 24
afclsn is an unknown quantity at this point
Re: Half Sidecar PWM Ports Working

Quote:
Originally Posted by kevin.li.rit View Post
Just to help us help you here are some basic questions.

How are you determining that they are outputting reverse/forward all the time?
How are your motors wired?
How did you determine ports 5-10 are working properly?
What speed controllers are you using and are they wired properly?
We determined that they are outputting forward/ reverse by attaching a cim through a victor and then trying the pwm in each port (disabling the bot and changing the code to account for each new port) when in ports 1&2 spin one direction with no driver controls, and there is a solid green light on the victor. Ports 3&4 spin the other way and display a solid red light, and the rest work as expected with driver controls(we were able to successfully run our mecanum drivetrain in the working ports) The morons are wired to the victors following the wiring diagram, and they work in ports 5-10 (which was determined by by using them to control our robot which behaved as expected) and since everything worked as expected and we followed the wiring diagrams I am pretty sure everything is wired correctly. Any thoughts? Thanks for the help.

Last edited by afclsn : 29-01-2014 at 10:12. Reason: Typing error