Gyro code causes a crash

[enrique]

The code below causes the crio FRC program to crash. Anyone know why:

CONFIGURATION:
One KOP gyro hooked up to port 6 of the analog break out. The module is on slot 1. I tried passing the slot number 1 in, but it made no difference.

CODE:
class RobotDemo : public SimpleRobot
{
Gyro TheGyro;

public:
RobotDemo(void):
TheGyro(6)
{

float TheAngle = TheGyro.GetAngle();
printf("The Angle is %f \n", TheAngle);
}


CONSOLE OUTPUT:
>>>>ERROR: A parameter is out of range.: moduleNumber and/or channel (must be accumulator channel) ...in InitGyro() in C:/WindRiver/workspace/WPILib/Gyro.cpp at line 32
dDistance is 21.347803

program
Exception current instruction address: 0x00000000
Machine Status Register: 0x0008b012
Condition Register: 0x28000484
Task: 0x11e49e8 "FRC_RobotTask"
0x11e49e8 (FRC_RobotTask): task 0x11e49e8 has had a failure and has been stopped.
0x11e49e8 (FRC_RobotTask): fatal kernel task-level exception!

[RufflesRidge]

The gyro can only be used with the channels that have an accumulator assigned to them in FPGA. I believe this is currently channels 1 and 2 on slot 1 (I know Slot 1 channel 1, I believe the other is on slot 1 channel 2)

[enrique]

awesome! that did it, thanks.

However, I got back 1784.183105

What is that suppose to be?

[enrique]

It's working ok, not sure why I got that big value at first.

[nightpool]

Originally Posted by enrique

It's working ok, not sure why I got that big value at first.

Probably because you didn't reset the accumulator right away.