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Re: Suggestion for next year's WPILib

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Originally Posted by Zme View Post
Also, a little more recently we observed that sometimes, just sometimes (it is very very annoying to track down as it is random) when starting and stopping tasks quickly or just doing it a lot the main robot task got ended (robot code light went off, task got stopped), because our watchdog expiration time was a bit high (someone got really annoyed with it one day) the robot kept going with the last sent motor values,in one case this sent it careening into a mentor, while no one was hurt and we all got a good laugh about it this is not good, and can cause things to break if the design requires something to stop at a certain place and the motor keeps running.
If the library is written right the robot would be disabled as soon as the task was killed, and then teleop takes over control for enable.
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