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Re: Advance Calibrating

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Originally Posted by kaszeta
Note that since many teams do a lot of code between the joysticks and the victors (deadbands, scaling factors, etc), it's worth writing a program for your bot that does nothing but calibrate the Victors. Our team wrote one that automatically ramps all the pwm outputs between 0 and 254 unless a joystick button is pressed, at which point it drives all the pwms to 127. Very useful for calibrating.
What's the purpose of doing that compared to reseting to factory calibration?