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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
The other thing we do is keep what we call the "motor spreadsheet" in Subversion. This is an Excel sheet that contains information on all the motors, sensors, etc. in the system and indicates what inputs or outputs they are hooked to. The electrical team maintains this sheet and notifies software if they change anything. Also we tend to stick with the same assignments year-to-year as much as possible (for example, drive motors are PWMs 1-4, etc). Once a motor or sensor is assigned to an input or output, it usually stays there for the season unless there's a really good reason to change it.
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We did that last year and I must say it is very helpfull to the programmers to know what is what after the electrical has moved stuff.