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Re: Talon SRX spamming forward and backward constantly

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
My spitball guess is that both Talons have the same CAN address, and one is on the left side of the robot, and the other is on the right side of the robot. When you send the command, both motors respond by rotating in the same direction. However, as the motors are oriented in opposite directions, one of them appears to be going backward.
This cannot happen...
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Although the roboRIO Web-based Configuration is tolerant of “common ID” Talon SRXs to a
point, the robot programming API will not enable/control “common ID” Talons reliably.
...section 3.1 in Talon SRX Software Reference Manual.

Basically two Common-ID talons can't be enabled at the same time. One will win while the other stays disabled. Also there will be instances when both disable. When a Talon SRX is disabled it will blink orange each LED in an alternate pattern (think rail road crossing). See Talon User Guide for LED table.