Awkward macnum drive issues

[Ether]

Originally Posted by dShad

The purpose of the code is to reduce the speed of the drive system to make it more manageable for our driver. Is this the proper way to do it or is there something I'm missing that would cause the motors to unbalance voltage wise?

I hope you're not planning on leaving that in there for competition.

By limiting your joystick output to +/-0.25 you are severely limiting the output from your motors.

It would be better to gear the motors down some more so they could operate at full voltage.

[Dustin Shadbolt]

Originally Posted by Ether

I hope you're not planning on leaving that in there for competition.

By limiting your joystick output to +/-0.25 you are severely limiting the output from your motors.

It would be better to gear the motors down some more so they could operate at full voltage.

It was just there for the build season to help with teaching the freshmen driver on how to drive the robot and what not. It will be removed from the competition code.

Tonight we are going to gear down the drive somewhat and go from there. I also found out the controller does seem to send a slight x value so i'm working on something to fix this now. Thanks guys.

[j.cole]

Here's what I did if you would like to go off of that. I'm sure there is an easier way of doing this but this way works just fine.