labview help

[Vikesrock]

I'm not sure I understand what you want to do here. Why don't you want to modify the joystick inputs before they go into the Tank Drive VI, is there something about this approach that isn't the way you want?

[zip100]

Sorry for the confusion, I was asking will cutting the joystick values in half give me the same effect as cutting the motor speed in half. So the max motor speed is .5 instead of one. Which one do you think is more beneficial if the robot has to much power? If it is cutting the motor speed in half how would go about doing that?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by zip100

Sorry for the confusion, I was asking will cutting the joystick values in half give me the same effect as cutting the motor speed in half. So the max motor speed is .5 instead of one. Which one do you think is more beneficial if the robot has to much power? If it is cutting the motor speed in half how would go about doing that?

Cutting the actual motor speed in half requires closed loop control using a sensor such as an encoder.

The code you have is the easy way to slow down your drive motors.

[zip100]

Ok I will try it tomorrow and will report on how it went.

[kws4000]

If you are looking for a permanent speed reduction, I would think that you can multiply the unbundled "Y" value before sending it anywhere by something less than 1, and that would send less than the maximum voltage to the motors.