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Re: Extreme curve?

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Originally Posted by mrwright View Post
How many motors per gearbox? How are the motors connected?

We had the same problem last year and we discovered that one of the Anderson Power Pole connector contacts wasn't fully engaged. That solved the problem for us.
You can use the power functions on the PDP to check the current going to each motor. If one motor is suspiciously low (or high), that could point to a mechanical or wiring problem, as opposed to a programming problem.

You can also try changing teleop to drive the motors at 70% power instead of whatever value the joystick says. That should tell you whether this is only happening in auton (the problem is in your auton code) or if it is always happening and the driver is subconsciously correcting for it (the problem is mechanical or somewhere else in the code).
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