Spin for changing brake mode?

sankeydd · January 7, 2020, 9:44pm

It seems like this command:

Always changes the brake ode for the motor to brake or hold… If you set it to coast ahead of time it’s not coast anymore when your’re done. Has anyone else noticed this?

4869Robotics · January 7, 2020, 9:56pm

Im confused on what your asking , but if you use the set ----- to brake type ------ block then you can select Coast, hold, brake.

SiliconOxide · January 7, 2020, 10:16pm

But sankeydd said that for some reason it changed back when the command was used.

4869Robotics · January 7, 2020, 10:39pm

try puting that code in a forever statement

jpearman · January 7, 2020, 10:50pm

spinToPosition and spinFor (the underlying sdk functions) will always leave the motor in hold mode when the command completes, this is a function of the motor and there’s not much we can do in the SDK. you could probably add a stop command after to get the motor back into the required mode.

sankeydd · January 7, 2020, 11:33pm

I’ll try that tomorrow. Thanks!

spaghetti_code · January 8, 2020, 3:20am

Do you know if setMotortarget and moveMotortarget in RobotC also leave the motor in hold mode?

jpearman · January 8, 2020, 7:27am

Not sure, it’s been a while since I looked at any ROBOTC source code. I think we had our own algorithm for moving motors in RC, but I may be wrong on that. Are you still using RC ?

spaghetti_code · January 8, 2020, 2:25pm

Yes, my son’s team uses regular RobotC. My daughter’s uses RobotC graphical.