Hi,

It was my understanding that the nMotorEncoder[] could be written to in order to pre-set the value of the encoder. This is important because I built a circuit to swap between two different motors that share the same port. I would like to be able to read the value of the motor encoder right before the swap, store it in an array, then track the second motor's progress using the encoder. When it is about to swap back, it stores the latest encoder position to a second array element and RE-Initializes the nMotorEncoder with the first motors last position prior to the first swap. (This way neither motor looses the last known position of it's encoder.) I have all of the code written and the circuit built, but I can't seem to get the nMotorEncoder[] to re-Initialize to the stored value.
For example:

Should this be able to function with this code? Is there another way to assign the Encoder a value from a variable?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.
Mark

There is a "write" function for motor encoders. But it is really a "reset to zero" function -- it sets the motor encoder value to zero regardless of the value that you try to write to it.

This is not that unusual behavior. Many microprocessors have a "write" function that is used to "reset to zero" an I/O line.

Since you're going to be using custom code for your dual motors on one port, you can write a simple function that will give you the encoder delta for each of your two motors. You'll need to keep track of "my cumulative encoder" and "current start position".

Every time you switch motors you first add the value of "current encoder" - "start positon" to "my cumulative encoder" for the motor that was moving. Then you set "start position to "current encoder".

When you want to get the encoder position for the current motor you add "my cumulative encoder" with "current encoder" - "start position".