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Originally Posted by Andy A.
Is there anyway that you could calibrate a victor, and have the program 'listen' in so that it could too could be calibrated and remember how the victor is scaling the input, and then use that its (the program) self? Would knowing exactly how much the victor is scaling the numbers help autonomous programming at all? I don't think I'm making my self very clear with this, but does anyone get it?
Yeah, I get it, and it's an interesting idea. Yes, you should be able to "listen in" as you calibrate the Victors, and yes you could use the calibration in your autonomous program.

When you have finished the calibration, you would want to save the max, min and neutral values to EEPROM so you don't have to recalibrate every time you power on your robot. (Or you might want to be be paranoid and force yourself to calibrate every time. )
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