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Re: Create a low speed drive in programming
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Originally Posted by George1083
You might want to tweak that reduction ratio a little, though. For example, you might want to multiply by 2/3 or 3/4 instead of 1/2.
One year, we had our programmer's make it so the dial on the joystick controlled this scaling factor. This allowed the robot max speed to be dynamically adjusted.

I just do the gearboxes. Any programmers wanna explain how this is possible?

John
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