Get voltage from Spark Max

Technical Programming
#1

How would you get the voltage on a Spark Max? There’s no method for it in CANPIDController, SparkMax, or CANEncoder.

#2

How about the GetBusVoltage() method?

#3

I thought that measured the voltage inputted to the controller, not the voltage the motor received.

#4

There’s the GetAppliedOutput() method. Perhaps that’s what you want?

#5

Just to clarify, the GetAppliedOutput() method will return a percent from -1 to 1, not a voltage (we will be updating the docs shortly).

So to get the applied voltage you can do GetBusVoltage() * GetAppliedOutput()

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