KOP Gyro Lag

[Kevin Watson]

Originally Posted by FRC4ME

Sure. I'll send you our version that uses your code. We also have a version that uses IFI's base code. Both exhibited the gyro lag problem.

The topic that I linked to above tells me it isn't an ADC problem, since the person who posted that topic tested the same analog input with a POT and there was no lag at all.

You should test your setup with a potentiometer too (I suspect it will react much faster). Because what you describe sounds like a classic capacitive drive problem, I strongly suspect your gyro cannot drive the capacitance it's output driver is "seeing". This can be due to a defective gyro and/or the cabling presents a capacitive load that is too high for the gyro to drive. Either way, this is not normal behavior as the angular change should be nearly instantaneous.

-Kevin