Microswitch problem

[SoD]

Printf. And there are 3 plugins in the microswitch right? We connected the yellow one to the upper one, nothing to the middle one, and the red one to the lowest one

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by SoD

Printf. And there are 3 plugins in the microswitch right? We connected the yellow one to the upper one, nothing to the middle one, and the red one to the lowest one

Should be black and yellow, no red at all.
Use only the outer wires at the RC digital input side.

The red is power and used only by devices that need power to work. A switch doesn't need power. It simply connects the signal wire (yellow) to the ground (black) or not to close or open the circuit.

If you have a multimeter you can use it to test that the switch is wired correctly.

[Bomberofdoom]

Thanks! We've got it working!

[SoD]

Darn we now have a new problem

if (rc_dig_in01 == 0)
{
relay1_fwd = 0;
relay1_rev = 0;
}

else
{
relay1_fwd = 1;
relay1_rev = 1 ;
}

This is the code we are trying to use atm, but we have a problem. When the motor works foward, and i press the microswitch, it changes from 1 to 0 and the motor stops working. But when the motor is working backwards, and I press the microswitch, the microswitch turns to 0 but the relay1_rev remains 1 ;s

Whats wrong?

[Andrew Morris]

What motor? You haven't mentioned a motor before.

Andrew

[Mark McLeod]

Here is a table of how to set the relay values to get the different results possible. It's from the IFI Spike document: http://www.ifirobotics.com/docs/spik...uide-sep05.pdf

We don't usually set both "rev" and "fwd" to 1 at the same time.

Both fwd=0;rev=0; as well as fwd=1;rev=1; should mean the motor is off.

This code will execute one section only as long as the switch is depressed and the other whenever the switch is not pressed.