stopping a motor

[thensley]

Is there a way to stop a motor and have it brake instead of float?

[FTC9912]

What are you using in your code? I would think the easiest is to set the power to zero. Here are few suggestions.
// stop motors with brakes on.
motorA.stop(); or motorA. setPower(0);

[FLARE]

motorName.setZeroPowerBehavior(DcMotor.ZeroPowerBe havior.BRAKE); -- This will "put the brakes on" with motorName.setPower(0)

motorName.setZeroPowerBehavior(DcMotor.ZeroPowerBe havior.FLOAT); -- This will coast with motorName.setPower(0)

[thensley]

Would we put that in the hardware program or in the op mode itself?

[thensley]

FLARE would we put that in hardware or in the op mode?

[FLARE]

You can put that in with your other hardware initialization. So you'd have something like:

motorName = opMode.hardwareMap.get(DcMotor.class, "​​​​​​​motorName");
​​​​​​​motorName.setDirection(DcMotor.Direction.FORWARD);
​​​​​​​motorName.setMode(DcMotor.RunMode.RUN_WITHOUT_ENCODER);
motorName.setZeroPowerBehavior(DcMotor.ZeroPowerBehavior.BRAKE);

[thensley]

FLARE Thank You!

[3805Mentor]

To clarify braking, it slows the motor rapidly, it does not hold the motor in position once stopped.