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Re: [FTC]: Spin Motor Wind Down: Programming

we had the same problem. however since we found out how much damage it can cause on the motors the hard way at a competition, we did a quick and dirty fix. we set it to an idle speed. this way the motors always ran. sped up nicely, and slowed down nicely.only down side was everyone thought we did something wrong in the code, and it would occasionally spew out a ball or two because we had the idle speed to high.

i think the nicest solution would be to turn of the brakes on the motors some how. although i don't know how you would do that.
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