Anybody using Talons?
 

I haven't seen any Talons on the electrical board pictures posted on CD (in fact, all I've seen are Victors). Is anyone using them?

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We are and so is 103

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TechnoKats are using Talons.

I've seen a couple of photos posted showing Talons. With fans installed, you have to look closely to notice that they aren't Victors.

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Attachment 13927We are using talons and we have a picture of our electronics too.

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/38558

Those are all Talons :)

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2914 is using them right now, but we don't have spares and with no replacements available we are considering swapping them all out before competition with victors, or limiting them to the drivetrain.

Wetzel

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Robo Rams are using Talons, and we're loving them.

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I couldn't agree more. Our team is loving the talons.

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2410 is using Talons. Love them! Wohoo for sealed motor controllers

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We want to use Talons but are having some difficulty due to the shortage of them right now. We have exactly enough for what we want to accomplish, but have no extras.

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271 is using Talons, as far as I know. So much lighter and smaller.

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Team 41 is using talons. We used to use Jaguars with CAN, but we felt the talons were superior.

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Team 11 is using Talons.

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Talons here.

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We did a test of victors vs talons on one of our mechanism. Talons won hands down. Boy are they smooth!

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Victor what? 888 or 884? There's a big difference.


Smooth, as in linear response? Or some other kind of smooth?

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With the shortage of Talons, I expect to hear this a lot in the pits 'Team xxxx needs a Talon'

We are using Victors for drive and jags for shooters and other stuff.

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All talons here on 1089 as well.

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All talons, no fans.

We ran them on our preseason test chassis and liked them. No real reasons for liking them, other than wiring niceities and smaler size/weight compared to everything else.

They also packaged better on our robot; we could barely fit 6 talons in one place where we would only be able to fit 5 victors due to the slightly smaller size of the talons.

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When we couldn't purchase more talons for spares we decided to conserve some of them as spares for our robot. We had 8 purchased so we are using them on our shooter(3 motors) and 2 other motors. That leaves us with 3 spares. Our robot will actually have 4 jaguars on the drive system, 5 talons and 2 victor 888's ... along with 6 pneumatic cylinders....

a multi-"cultural" speed controlled robot.

We would have liked to have used talons on everything (except the drive system) but with no spares available, we needed to change. We are using the Jags on the drive system so we can use CAN this year.

I think the Jags are nice (primarily because of the CAN connections) but with this year's move to a smaller format... they are difficult to fit in the space available.

I will definitely buy into the talons when they become CAN compatible.

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We're the same way, black jaguars, tan jaguars, talons, and Victor 888s.

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1625 will be using a combination of both Talons and Victor 888s, the combination mainly due to funding and availability.

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Team 3008 is using talons

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Team 2637 will be using Talons for our drivetrain.

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7 talons. 4 drive train talons have fans.

I told my team "no Jags". They decided where to go from there. I'm just happy we won't scramble to reprogram/reflash Jags on the CAN bus in between elim matches.

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10 talons, 4 spikes

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We're using talons as decorative pieces on our 2013 parts table.:)

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I'm using them as packing material in boxes of other robot parts. We have until the 19th to design right? Then we start building it?

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We've got Talons on every motor. 7 on the robot and about 20 more sitting in a drawer (what shortage?)

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2771 is using some Talons and some Jags.

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We are switching over to Talons completely this year. However, due to the small and more compact size of our robot, I wired the fans from inside the Jaguars onto the Talons to prevent too much heat in such close quarters

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Team 230 will be using 10 Talons on this year's machine.

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Unfortunately we missed the FirstChoice window for Talons, and then our mentor tried to put off the order and group things to save on shipping and it went out of stock, and then missed it again when they went back into stock for 6 hours the other night.

So now we're using 5 Jaguars, depending on how well our robot handles with only 2 CIMs on the drivetrain, in which case we'd use 7.

It's a very tight squeeze.

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I wish we had 10 talons. we only have 8, so now I have to replace the 2 missing ones with victors, which means I have to cut holes in my beautifully decorated cover plates, becuase the victors are too tall to fit under them. :(

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6 Talons, 2 Victors, 2 Spikes, 5 Double Solenoids.