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Re: Calibrating Victors

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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
I'm going to chime in here and say that calibrating the Victors is a very bad idea. You should consider it a design requirement in software to output the full values to the Victor. That means 127 is neutral, 0 is 100% power in reverse, and 254 is 100% power in the forward direction.
I agree that for most applications this is the case, but remember, there is always an exception. I think that it is better to say that for the FIRST robotics application, it is recommended that the Victors be calibrated as you outlined above.

However, I don't think it hurts to perform a callibration once a year. You never know what that Victor's been through. Better to be safe than sorry.