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Re: HELP!!! Calibrating Victors

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Originally Posted by phrontist
I see the general concensus seems to be that one should calibrate the victors by pushing a joystick to the extremes. Wouldn't it be better to send pure 255 and 0 signals in code?
254. Not 255. Get in the habit of considering 255 an illegal value for both joystick input and pwm control.

If you're going to "calibrate" a Victor by sending it full-scale signals, you're not really calibrating it to your operator inputs. You'd have an easier time resetting it to its default calibration, and you'd still want to be accommodating the range of values you get from your joysticks in some other way.