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Re: How do you shoot so fast?

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Originally Posted by s_forbes View Post
The gist I get from the programming team is that the Talon SRXs only feedback velocity information from the encoders on a 100ms timeframe, so making a control loop respond to multiple balls per second is extremely difficult with that route. Running the encoder into the digital I/O ports on the rio lets you make your own control system that is more responsive.
The Talon closes the loop much faster than the roboRio WPI classes (by default). I think the Talon is nearly 10X faster. The 100ms comes up because the Talon counts pulses per 100ms instead of pulses per second - my guess is they do it to make the internal integer math easier. But, for sure, the 100ms thing has zero to do with how fast the Talon's close the loop.

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