Thread: KOP Gyro Lag
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Re: KOP Gyro Lag

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Originally Posted by Kevin Watson View Post
You should test your setup with a potentiometer too (I suspect it will react much faster). Because what you describe sounds like a classic capacitive drive problem, I strongly suspect your gyro cannot drive the capacitance it's output driver is "seeing". This can be due to a defective gyro and/or the cabling presents a capacitive load that is too high for the gyro to drive. Either way, this is not normal behavior as the angular change should be nearly instantaneous.

-Kevin
How much cabling is too much? We're just using one standard-length PWM cable that came from the KOP. Is that too much? What would you suggest we do next?