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Re: labview help

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Originally Posted by zip100 View Post
Sorry for the confusion, I was asking will cutting the joystick values in half give me the same effect as cutting the motor speed in half. So the max motor speed is .5 instead of one. Which one do you think is more beneficial if the robot has to much power? If it is cutting the motor speed in half how would go about doing that?
Cutting the actual motor speed in half requires closed loop control using a sensor such as an encoder.

The code you have is the easy way to slow down your drive motors.
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