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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
BTW, we've lost three analog KoP gyroscopes in the past year, two during this year's build season. If you can't get things working with the gyroscope, try checking it with a voltmeter or reading the values from it directly to verify that the hardware is still working.
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Originally Posted by lopsided98
That seems kind of odd, given that we have used to exact same KOP gyro for two years without any problems.
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I agree that it's odd. Our 4 KoP gyroscopes were the literal KoPs from the previous 3 years, and one we bought our first year; all four were working in Jan 2014. I would have thought we were doing something wrong electrically, but one of them was working before lunch break, and did not come up after lunch break. No one was working on the robot during that time, apart from the battery change. I suppose the warranties are running out
. I just wanted to throw this out to try to keep other teams from spending as many hours as we did trying to get a navigation system work because we were focused on software and ignored the hardware.