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Re: [FTC]: Spin Motor Wind Down: Programming

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Originally Posted by clwilligham View Post
we tried that. the motors did some very odd things. the motors pretty much went haywire when we did this.

but we don't really want to turn off the brakes for all the motors. is there a way to set just 2 motors to float like in NXTG?
Your experience seems to match ours. One of my students came up with a possible fix (*hack*) which appeared to prevent their drive motors from flipping out when they wanted to coast their shooter motors. I'll check with him to see what it was and if it is a viable workaround; if it is, we'll post it.
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