How to program solenoid and compressor?

[MattD]

Originally Posted by Kingofl337

This is not correct, call the Compressor class tell it the digital input and the spike port and it will take care for you.

ex: Compressor myComp = new Compressor(1,1); //That's all you need

By default, the compressor is not enabled until you call the start() method on it. This is needed in addition to the creation of a Compressor object.

Originally Posted by bamse

Howdy...

We had to insert this piece of code in the operatorControl() as well,

// New compressor code...
if (airCompressor.getPressureSwitchValue()) {
airCompressor.setRelayValue(edu.wpi.first.wpilibj. Relay.Value.kOff);
} else {
airCompressor.setRelayValue(edu.wpi.first.wpilibj. Relay.Value.kOn);
}

And don't forget to turn the compressor off when exiting your operatorControl loop...

airCompressor.setRelayValue(edu.wpi.first.wpilibj. Relay.Value.kOff);

Make sure to call start() on the compressor object, and also make sure that it is a class member so it does not go out of scope. Since the example code in post #5 shows no declaration for airCompressor, my best guess is that you're creating a new one each loop.

The example should look more like this:

....
public class Airsystem extends SimpleRobot {
     private Joystick DriverStick;
     private AxisCamera camera;                       //defines Axis Camera
     private Solenoid s1,s2;                             //defines solenoids
     private Compressor airCompressor;

     public Airsystem() {
          DriverStick = new Joystick(1);             // USB port
          airCompressor = new Compressor(1,1);  //Digtial I/O,Relay
          airCompressor.start();                        // Start the air compressor

          s1 = new Solenoid(1);                        // Solenoid port
          s2 = new Solenoid(2);
     }
     ...