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Re: Victor SP toggling from neutral to forward when enabled

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
What's the difference between these three modes?
Mode 1 is the mode we use most, where simply turning the knob changes the PWM duty cycle, which is displayed on the LED readout. Mode 2 is some variation of this but I don't recall the details. We just never really used it. Mode 3 sweeps the duty cycle between the min and max values. Great for making a servo swing back and forth but not so useful for FRC. Makes the wheels go from full forward to full reverse and back again within a pretty short span. I wouldn't leave it doing that for very long.

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Also, were you able to figure out what this means?
I think that's either trying to say that since there are three separate PWM outputs linked to the input, that you could connect three servos (or 3 motor controllers) and make sure their movements are synchronized, or simply that the output PWM value is automatically synchronized to the input from the knob. Who knows!
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