Gyroscope troubles

[Negative 9]

We are trying to use the AM Dual Gyro/Accelerometer to detect the angle of our shooter. We have it mounted perpendicular to our shooter so that it detects the axis of rotation of the shooter rather than the robots. We also only have the rate part of the gyro wired up to the analog breakout(which we recently found out needs to be separately powered).

Initialization (plugged in to the slot labeled 1 on the analog breakout)

Gyro gyro = new Gyro(1);

The problem is is that when we print out the angle of the gyroscope using:

gyro.getAngle();

All we see is that very slowly decreases no matter what. It doesn't respond to any movement and probably more alarmingly does not change its behavior when it isn't plugged in.

Any ideas?