I need to monitor the amps being pulled while driving to see which modifications will help me reduce the likelihood of stalling my motors. I do not see this in the RobotC UI. Can you tell me easiest way to see/measure this real time?

There is no sensor built into the cortex that can measure current draw of specific motors. Have you looked at jpearman’s smart motor library? https://vexforum.com/t/smart-motor-library/22282/1

I was just at the US Create Open in Iowa and the very helpful VEX rep was able to monitor our robot and show me the amperage spikes real time. Our robot appears to have issue with (presumable new) very squishy fields. Since I cannot reproduce this issue on any other mat, I was trying to see if I c…

I have also looked this reference but the link appear to be dead

[image] reflxshn: I was just at the US Create Open in Iowa and the very helpful VEX rep was able to monitor our robot and show me the amperage spikes real time. Our robot appears to have issue with (presumable new) very squishy fields. Since I cannot reproduce this issue on any other mat, I wa…

[image] reflxshn: I have also looked this reference but the link appear to be dead The links from 2012 are dead, I moved the library to github in 2013. [image] GitHub - jpearman/smartMotorLib Contribute to jpearman/smartMotorLib development by creating an account on GitHub. …

What wheels are you using? Anything more than one regular wheel on each side causes tons of friction when turning, which is why it’s good to use omni wheels.

Kevin Boenisch: What wheels are you using? Anything more than one regular wheel on each side causes tons of friction when turning, which is why it’s good to use omni wheels. Much appreciated…This is one of the configurations we were wanting to test. Currently we have 4 traction wheels which …

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The links from 2012 are dead, I moved the library to github in 2013.

There is no built in current monitoring inside the cortex, the only way to monitor actual current is to use external components, one example is in this thread.