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Re: PSA: Secure your battery

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Originally Posted by flemdogmillion View Post
Lowering the turn rate down from 1 a little is usually a good idea, but it's also good to turn on SquaredInputs... and strongly secure your battery, because using SquaredInputs delinearizes the inputs in a way that allows better control at low speeds, while still keeping the maximum speed at 1.
This was with scaled inputs already I believe. An 18+ fps top speed might have had something to do with it. Once we were done tuning the PIDs it was quite easy to drive given how quick it was.
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