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26-10-2006, 08:50

chris31

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Re: Victor Brakes

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Originally Posted by sanddrag

Also, the Victors have a Brake/Coast jumper (check the manual) when this jumper is set to Brake and the victor is in the neutral range, it will short the leads of the motor causing a resistance to motion. I believe you can somehow hook the brake coast jumper pins to the robot controller to have selectable braking.

Last year we did that. Then had a button the the joystick so the driver could turn it on or off depending on what they wanted. It worked pretty nice.

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