When our robot is running against defense, the current overload on the motors causes the breakers to trip and power to the motors to be cut off. Is there any way to fix this? Also, we are only running at 60% of the max speed and this still happens.
I can very much sympathize with this, having just experienced the same issue at Greater Boston. Thanks to 125 The Nutrons for walking us through current limiting and ramping on the SparkMax controllers!
You want to look here:
http://www.revrobotics.com/content/sw/max/sw-docs/java/com/revrobotics/CANSparkMax.html#setSmartCurrentLimit(int,int)
and here:
http://www.revrobotics.com/content/sw/max/sw-docs/java/com/revrobotics/CANSparkMax.html#setOpenLoopRampRate(double)
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We saw this as well this past weekend, we were pushing our neos pretty hard driving pretty fast and then constantly having to fight through traffic from defenders.
I think the current limiting will help prevent it from happening again in the future.
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