pic: Undefeated in eliminations at RITR and THOR... this sums up our feelings right now.

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by ThunderousPrime

One thing I have noticed though from going to 2 offseason events with our beta electronics + robot (which we didn't win unfortunately ) is that the beta equipment can do some wonky things with autonomous mode. This year my team's robot had a super consistent 1 ball autonomous routine; averaging our 2 regionals and champs I would say 90% of our shots in auto were accurate. When we went to our first offseason I noticed that the robot did not drive far enough forward to make the shot. (No drive length code was changed to my knowledge.) At our second offseason there were multiple beta teams such 1114 and 340 who were missing auto shots with what I think were similar problems.

Was the robot consistently driving a little bit short? Also, were you using the Victor SPs? If so, it might mean that the signal vs voltage curves on the Victor SPs are slightly different than those of whatever other speed controller you were previously using . Has anyone made a graph like this for the new speed controllers?

If rather your robot had a large variation in the distances it traveled in auto, then it is likely not the control system that is to blame.