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Re: Motors Only Work When Being Calibrated

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Originally Posted by OwenVanTiem View Post
We tried something similar, we unplugged 2 and tried driving, and it worked perfectly fine. We traced the leads, and they are all plugged in fine and everything is where it should be. For now I fixed the problem by inverting the motor in the code, which seems to make them both travel in the correct direction. We suspect that there is a problem with the victor but we cant be sure.
What motors are you using? If it's a motor where your team soldered wires, it's easy to get them backwards.