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Unread 01-04-2003, 12:41
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Sorry for posting again, right after myself. It's been 13 hours, and I think that if I just edit that last post, no one would wind up seeing it.

Last night, Joe Ross alterted me to the fact that if FIRST allowed us to control PWM signals to the Victors or Spikes, by way of the custom circuit (CC), they could not guarantee that the motors / actuators controlled by those Victors and Spikes would be shut off, when the robot were put into disable mode.

Something that might remedy this problem is a kind of a pass-through system. PWM signals would be generated by both the RC and the CC, but signals from the CC would be sent through the RC, and then passed on to the Victors and Spikes, without the RC modifying the signal at all. When the RC is disabled, by way of the competition port, the pass-through portion of the RC would cut the signals from the CC, and the CC would not be in danger of sending PWM signals to Victors or Spikes after a robot has been disabled, anymore.

I'm sorry to have to acknowledge that if IFI decided to implement this system, they would have to redesign the RC, if just a little, because I don't believe it can be done with the current Issac32, as is.

Lots more work for IFI for such a small thing...

I doubt it'll happen, myself.
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