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Reserved for discussion of motor sharing through “differentials”

Differential transmission - Mobile Goal to Drivetrain (DMD)
Differential transmission - power takeoff from the drivetrain motors
Planetary CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) Help!

9551A Transmission Update

Vex Transmission Recap/Explanation/Tips

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Reserved for additional advanced building technique 1

Reserved for additional advanced building technique 2

Reserved for additional advanced building technique 3

Reserved for discussion of Pneumatic components 1

Reserved for discussion of lubrication of mechanical components

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Reserved for discussion of mechanical maintenance of V5 smart motors


DO NOT use industrial lubricants like WD-40 or white lithium grease on internal plastic gears inside V5 motors or cartridges.

You may use light synthetic oil or synthetic grease like SW-92SA that is used for fine/plastic mechanical internals of cameras, printers, keyboards, dvd players, etc…

v5_motor_maintenance

Broken Motor Inserts

V5 motor Cap and Threaded Insert replacement parts are sold separately

May need to be moved into V5 Motor electric/programming entry:

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Reserved for V5 components overview

3-wire:

Specific 3-wire port numbers for dual wire sensors:

Possible problem due to order of initialization of 3-wire port accessor instances:

Memory Permission Error

Temporary workaround for 8 legacy 3-wire port limit:
Connect multiple sensors to a single port to overcome the limit of 8 legacy ports

Legacy, non competition legal components:
Using Flashlight in VCS

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Reserved for Bumper and Limit Switch wiki entry

Reserved for VEX Potentiometer wiki entry

Reserved for Quad Encoder wiki entry

Reserved for IMU / Gyroscope wiki entry

V5 Inertial Sensor

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Reserved for Line Follower / IR Sensor wiki entry

Light sensor
Line Trackers in C++?
Vex Line Follower Robot not detecting dark line on light surface

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Reserved for Light Sensor wiki entry

Reserved for Ultrasonic / sonar / rangefinder sensor wiki entry

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Reserved for V5 Vision sensor wiki entry

https://api.vexcode.cloud/v5/html/classvex_1_1vision.html


Some debugging tricks:

Meaning of Vision Sensor parameters?
Vision Sensor config - objectCount inconsistent
V5 Vision Sensor "The Camera detected must be unlocked"
Vision Sensor Wifi
Vision Sensor Having Issues Seeing Objects
V5 Vision Sensor Color Code Coordinate Tracking

Vision Sensor Math:

Object Tracking:

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Reserved for V5 Inertial Sensor wiki entry
https://kb.vex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037382272-Inertial-Sensor-Sensors-for-VEX-V5

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Reserved for V5 Optical Sensor

Vex Knowlege base article

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Reserved for V5 Distance Sensor
Vex Knowlege base article

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Reserved for V5 3-Wire Expander

(I’m not so sure this needs it own entry but I will put it for now - Floub)

https://kb.vex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047144991-Using-the-3-Wire-Expander-Sensors-for-VEX-V5

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