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Re: Two motors at the same time... It is possible?
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Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:15:51 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Patrick J. Levy wrote:
> John,
> 
> > 
> > If you want to do these three things for two different motors
> > simultaneously you
> > can, but at the moment you have to roll your own code to do the job.
> 
> 
> It worked just as I expected. The two motors now are rotating the same time.
> Thanks to your example, now I am giving some time to understand this
> setOutput call, and reading all the documentation (it is quite easier with
> pratical examples...) , but i found that it does not accept negative values
> for the tachoLimit parameter. (The motor does not move at all)
> 
> I did not find any mention in the "NXC  guide - output module section" for
> changing the rotation direction of the motors, although i saw it is possible
> to do that using the convenience calls like OnFwd(outputs, pwr) and
> OnRev(outputs, pwr). So i can imagine there is a way...
> 
> Am I missing something?

Hi Patrick,

Indeed the Tacholimit can only be positive. But power can be negative, that's
the way to reverse direction.

Philo



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  Re: Two motors at the same time... It is possible?
 
(...) Yes, Now it is perfect. Not so obvious i think... Thanks! Patrick (20 years ago, 19-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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John, (...) It worked just as I expected. The two motors now are rotating the same time. Thanks to your example, now I am giving some time to understand this setOutput call, and reading all the documentation (it is quite easier with pratical (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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