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Re: FRC targeting light questions

Since spike is discontinued can I use anything else instead?
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Re: FRC targeting light questions

An LED light is considered a CUSTOM CIRCUIT, so those rules apply. You can use pretty much any appropriate relay in a CUSTOM CIRCUIT.
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Re: FRC targeting light questions

I still think it would be best to buy a Spike off an older team.

Also, when you code this (assuming you're in LabVIEW), you can use the Enable Vision global variable to control the relay in Periodic Tasks.vi, but make sure to remove the Enable Vision code from Robot Main.vi, because if you don't remove that and try to set the variable somewhere else (like controlling it with a button in Teleop) it can and will cause a race condition.
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Re: FRC targeting light questions

We ran one off of a Victor controller in 2012, which gave us the ability to control the intensity.
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Re: FRC targeting light questions

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Since spike is discontinued can I use anything else instead?
As this is a custom circuit, a 12V relay module can be controlled from a relay port or a DIO. (Similar products are available from many different vendors.)
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Re: FRC targeting light questions

If it is a low enough current draw, you can also try using the pneumatic control module directly.
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