Chief Delphi - Speed Controllers: Which is best?

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Originally Posted by Mr. Lim (Post 1262419)

The real strength of the Jag is in the first few weeks of build season.

Attach a jag, a breaker, a battery, encoder + potentiometer wires, and a serial CAN adapter on a small board, and you have a really versatile prototyping rig.

We basically had a working FCS prototype with <2% velocity speed control on day 2 of build thanks to the Jags and BDC-COMM.

No cRIO or programming required.

It's incredibly fast to get a newly built mechanisms up and running for trials - whether it requires speed control or position control - or neither!

Jags are great when used in the right situations.

Plus one on this.

I'd love to see vex do an overhall of BDC-COMM GUI though. It is a major pain ( and a possible safety concern) to have to type in every setpoint. I've had to use the "pull the USB cord" estop method a few too many times. If Vex doesn't do it, it could be a great project for a couple of our programmers to work on.