[FTC]: Tips page on using FTC Encoders with LabVIEW

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14-01-2009, 14:22

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Re: [FTC]: Tips page on using FTC Encoders with LabVIEW

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Originally Posted by jbbjjbt

I'll share the one trick that we developed at the VA Tournament. We hooked a Lego motor to the 12V switch. Then if the motor controller acted up we could remotely switch the power on and off. This saved several matches.

Very clever...... (and the crowd roars)

.... beats waiting for the 2.5 second timeout

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