Overworked jaguars

[slijin]

Originally Posted by NS_Radication

The direction is only one direction and I do not seem to understand how to answer the last two quests/thoughts, possibly due to terminology.

I have seen your single post of the rate-limit and have had programmers block on implementing that system with a single button use.

The problem you describe implies that the gearing on your shooter necessitates some sort of ramping feature; that is, rather than an instantaneous change in supplied power, a gradual change. This is implemented by rate-limiting, which implements a maximum rate of change so that the Jaguar's over current protection will not cut in and stop your shooter.

My suggestion was to use the Jaguar's automatic ramp mode, which can be done by changing the jumper configuration on the limit switches from both vertical to both horizontal; this ramps the power change over a sixteenth of a second (assuming you're going from zero to full forward). Refer to p12 of the document I originally linked for a diagram of what the jumper configuration should look like.