Victor Programming Problems

Technical Java
1

My team is using Victor 888s to control motors. My problem is that when ever I run the test method (which sets them all to 0.7 while the button is pushed and 0 when it is not) the motors either jump one at a time (randomly) or don’t move at all.

This is how I initialized the victors:

Victor left = new Victor(0);
Victor right = new Victor(1);
Victor liftMotor1 = new Victor(4);
Victor liftMotor2 = new Victor(5);
Victor liftMotor3 = new Victor(6);
Victor launchMotor1 = new Victor(7);
Victor launchMotor2 = new Victor(8);

This is the testPeriodic method:

public void testPeriodic()
{
LiveWindow.run();
left.enableDeadbandElimination(true);
right.enableDeadbandElimination(true);
liftMotor1.enableDeadbandElimination(true);
liftMotor2.enableDeadbandElimination(true);
liftMotor3.enableDeadbandElimination(true);
launchMotor1.enableDeadbandElimination(true);
launchMotor2.enableDeadbandElimination(true);

    if (Stick.getRawButton(2))
    {
    	left.set(0.7);
        right.set(0.7);
        liftMotor1.set(0.7);
        liftMotor2.set(0.7);
        liftMotor3.set(0.7);
        launchMotor1.set(0.7);
        launchMotor2.set(0.7);
    }
    
    left.set(0.0);
    right.set(0.0);
    liftMotor1.set(0.0);
    liftMotor2.set(0.0);
    liftMotor3.set(0.0);
    launchMotor1.set(0.0);
    launchMotor2.set(0.0);

}

Thanks so much for your help.

2

Did you leave out an “else” statement to turn them off if a button is not pressed?

3

Thanks, got it to work.