Thread: No PMW output in Autonomous
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No PMW output in Autonomous
I'm having a problem communicating with the motors in Autonomous Mode. The motors work fine in the Default_Routine. When the RC is in Autonomous (the RC mode light is blinking yellow), the indicator LED's on the Victor 884's blink yellow, meaning there is no PWM input to them. In the Autonomous code, I've got the pwm variables assigned like I want them right before the Putdata(&txdata) statement, but the information is apparently not being output.

Is there some trick to driving motors in Autonomous? Or is my system configured incorrectly? The RC is disconnected from the OI (no tether), after the team number was set to 0000. That should work, shouldn't it, or do you have to have a competition dongle?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Russell Clothier, Team 1723