Thread: Running a Window Motor with both a spike and a victor at the same time
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Re: Running a Window Motor with both a spike and a victor at the same time
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Originally Posted by jborlston View Post
Hello from team 253,

We are having trouble with a window motor running off of a victor running full power. We would like to run the motor full speed forward with the spike and then at roughly 30% power in the negative direction with a spike. Is this possible? I mean is it legal? Thank you for the help.

If you need a drawing ask me, I can post one.

Thank you,

Shane
You're connecting the output sides of a Spike and a Victor together? If so, I'm pretty sure that's a bad idea. A couple bad lines of code and you have both devices turned on with opposite polarities connected.

A Victor should have no problem running a window motor at 100% duty cycle, assuming you have calibrated the Victor. You have, right?
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