Can you use the flashlight with V5 brains? If so, how?

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#1

I’m very new to programming, so I’m sorry if some of this doesn’t make sense or sounds silly!

I’m working on a project and I wanted to use a VEX flashlight like the one here and it seems like it was intended to be used with the vex microcontroller instead. I’ve been looking, but I can’t seem to find any instructions online that explain how to use the flashlight with the V5 brain.

Can the flashlight even be used with a V5 brain? If it can, how would I do that? What port would I put the flashlight into? What device would I select for it in VEXCode Pro V5? How would I program it?

#2

Welcome to the forum @goforbroke!

Does this other thread help answer your question?

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#4

Thanks for replying! I saw that thread, which helped me to realize that I should be using a motor controller. But from there, when I’m adding a device under the Robot Configuration tab in VEXCode, what do I choose? How do I go about programming the flashlight using pwm_out? I need an explanation that’s a little more in-depth.

#5

Do you want to post your code? It is hard to debug without the program.

#6

The closest thing I have to code right now is this, which I found on this thread. :

vex::pwm_out Flashlight = vex::pwm_out(Brain.ThreeWirePort.B);

// set pwm output for the Flashlight
Flashlight.state(100, vex::percentUnits::pct);

I replaced B with the correct port that the flashlight is plugged into. I’m not exactly sure where that first line fits into my code. Should some of it go before the initialization?

#7

You can only invoke Brain.ThreeWirePort after Brain initialization. Take a look at this topic:

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