ZeroPowerBehavior.BRAKE ?!?!?!

[thensley]

We have set our motors to BRAKE with the following statement in our hardware program:

FrontLeft.setZeroPowerBehavior(DcMotor.ZeroPowerBe havior.BRAKE);
BackLeft.setZeroPowerBehavior(DcMotor.ZeroPowerBeh avior.BRAKE);
FrontRight.setZeroPowerBehavior(DcMotor.ZeroPowerB ehavior.BRAKE);
BackRight.setZeroPowerBehavior(DcMotor.ZeroPowerBe havior.BRAKE);

However, in our TELEOP program this seems to reduce the power down about 50%. If you comment it out it goes back to operating normal?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Westside]

Certainly you would expect slower starts from joystick-zero, compared to the default behavior of FLOAT (continuing to coast with momentum).

If you are also observing lower maximum power with constant joystick-max, examine your TeleOp code for intermittently setting Power to zero within the main TeleOp loop. Under FLOAT your team might never have noticed such 'interruptions'. Feel free to post a link to that code.