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+Troy: On July 13th I recalibrated the a/d converter and it should be pretty close.
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+Troy: 14th, seems like you still have to check the position of the thing when you send a command, it doesn't always fully command the piston
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+Troy: 14th, There is a weird bug where the motor likes to move when it's sitting stationary a few mm back and forth.
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+Troy: 14th, What was the pressure sensor calibrated off of?
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+Troy: pos controller active generates crazy non-zero numbers but that's useful: e.g. 1610612736, -536870912
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+MISC NOTES:
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+//HIT SEND TWICE!  Why does it work this way?
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+//BCE has about 16.125 inches long = 409.575 mm length of travel to switch
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+//commanded position of -50 ==> 385 mm withdrawn
+//commanded position of -25 ==> 384 mm, what?
+//commanded position of 50  ==> 345 mm
+//commanded position of -25 ==> 385 mm, what? max position?
+//commanded position of 50  ==> 340 mm
+//commanded position of 0   ==> 385 mm, what...?
+//commanded position of 50  ==> 340 mm
+//commanded position of 100 ==> 296 mm
+//commanded position of 350 ==> 60 mm
+//commanded position of 300 ==> 80 mm
+//commanded position of 400 ==> -2.5 mm (piston sticks out)
+//commanded position of 50 ==>  315 mm (piston sticks out)
+//commanded position of 25 ==>  361 mm (piston sticks out) //not accurate right now
+
+//i'm stopping it at 370 mm
+//had some bs where i hit the limit switch before i retracted fully when i did position 0
+//don't go back that far
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