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Re: Drive Train Curves Only While Backing Up

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Originally Posted by Ozuru View Post
Does this mean then that when going forwards (or backwards) one talon should be red and the other should be green?
It depends on how you have the motors wired.

Normally, if you wire red to + on both the left and right side, you would expect to see one speed controller flash red while the other flashes green when driving forward (since you will have needed to invert one side in code because it is in the opposite physical orientation).

If you switch the motor leads on one side instead, you would NOT want to invert the command in code, and both sides would blink the same color.

Since there are two ways to invert each motor, it is easy to get confused. For this reason, I HIGHLY recommend NEVER inverting motors electrically...always do red to +, and invert in the code as necessary. This way, if you need to swap in a spare motor or speed controller, you never need to guess which way to wire it up because they are all always the same.