Mindboards

I was trying out a small device employing an old Lego 9v motor on the NXT using a hybrid cable and various programs. With the joystick and remote, I noticed that the motor was stiff, even when I had closed the applications. Running my own test program which used 'coast', rather than 'off' the motor turned freely when not being used, even when the program was running.

I want to run the device for a long period, is there any way to set the joystick or remote to 'coast' to save battery power?

Forget it, I'll just use the 'direct control' panel in BCC since that allows me to choose brake or float when switching the motor off.

So do you think it would be nice if you could choose whether BricxCC remote tools used a powered brake or a coast rather than have it always use a powered brake? I'm open to implementing this sort of enhancement.

You could do this right now with the Joystick tool via a custom RemoteObjects Pascal Script (.rops) assigned to one of your Joystick buttons.

http://old.nabble.com/BricxCC-Scripting-td15438140.html

Use MotorsFloat instead of MotorsOff to brake without power (aka coast).

ROPS is a powerful but little used tool in BricxCC. You can even create a program in the ROPS language within an editor window of the IDE and run it with integrated debugger support using the standard BricxCC menu and toolbar options.

John Hansen

Thanks John, but it's not really worth that bother for what I am trying to do.