Making AM SuperShifters work in LabView

Technical NI LabVIEW
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Has anyone used an Andymark Super Shifter?

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Yes.

Edit: Now that it’s in the right forum, and the thread topic has been clarified in the title, we can hopefully help. For what it’s worth, you can think of it in terms of a tank/arcade drivetrain (depending on your preference) and a pneumatic solenoid/servo (depending on the SuperShifter you have). Understand the control logic of those components, plus a joystick button to shift, and you’ve got most of it right there. If you want automatic shifting, or use of the optical encoders for drivetrain control, let us know; it gets more complicated quickly.

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Yes, The teams i personally mentor in the past 7 years have all use super shifters at one point in time. If you have any questions feel free to pm me with any questions you might have.

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We used them last year on our robot, and will again this year. If you are already using pneumatics on your robot then I would recommend them.

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Our team has used Super Shifters. Is there something specific we can help you with?

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Were wanting some programming help (LabVIEW)

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Programming a pneumatic-shift gearbox is extremely easy in LabVIEW. If you use a dual solenoid, all you need to do is use two joystick/gamepad buttons.

Place two Case blocks. Wire one button’s value to the select input of the first block. In its True case, set the solenoid Forward. Wire the other button to the second block. In the True case of that block, set the solenoid Reverse. The False cases remain empty. Press one button to shift to high gear; press the other button to shift low.

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I just wanted to clarify, as the OP was a little vague. We are trying to get the Super Shifter to automatically change gears when the motor hits a certain RPM, which we are hoping to get via the encoder. As of right now we do not have much and any help would be appreciated.

I just learned of what we were attempting to do with these tonight, so I’m going to check with the other mentors to make sure I understood what we are looking for correctly, and will clarify if i misunderstood something.

Thanks in advance!!!