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Originally Posted by EricH
How is the motor hooked to the conveyor system? Direct coupling, gearbox, chain and sprocket? What's the ratio?
Oh, yeah: you kind of don't want to run the motor directly from the battery. I think there's some reason, but I can't remember what right now.
Also, what's the programming on the Jag?
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It's connected with belts, but as bighead said before, we ran it straight from the battery (the entire mechanism, belts and all) and it ran fine. This is the code:
Code:
if (stickL.GetTrigger())
ballSucker.Set(-1.0);
else
ballSucker.Set(0.0);
I tried swapping the PWM cable with the one for the wheels, and the code makes the wheels spin fine.
EDIT: We just tried disabling the watchdog, and that didn't work either. The jaguar runs for a bit (slowly, not powerful enough to run the motor) and then stops.