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Talon sr, or SRX?
What type of talon are you using this season?
Personally, we are using at least six talon SRX controllers on our bot, I haven't counted them, but this may be a problem because we don't have enough spares. So, which talon would be more reliable to use, the SR or the SRX? Also, is it possible to mix the two of them for use at the same time, not during competition, but on our test rig? Currently we have a testebed aptly named "ghettobot" which has four talon SR controllers but also has the option to use the two spare SRX controllers we have. Currently we just swap them using a few connectors when we need to work with the SRX, but would it be possible to avoid this and just leave them connected but disabled, as they are hidden under a platform attached to the robot and are hard to get to. Thanks, any help would be appreciated |
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There's no problem in having a speed controller present and powered but with no motor connected.
Do not, under any circumstances, connect the outputs of two speed controllers together. |
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The SRs have proved to be very reliable so it is a tall bar for the SRXs to beat. The SRXs have more electronics in them, if you are not using canbus the Victor SPs might be a better choice. In either case neither have been out long enough to have fully established a reliability record comparable to the SRs.
While it is best not to mix controllers in a subsystem, I would hesitate to do it at a completion if that is was the only option. |
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We're late adopters. Six of the SR on our robot.
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We're using five SRX's. The SR's were pretty good, but the SRX's blow them out of the water.
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the talon srx has a closed casing, but so does the sr. the thing I don't like about the talon srx is the wires that come pre-attached. if you cut them or strip them you cannot make a mistake, or you've got yourself a useless talon. even the CAN wires come preattached, in the model that has them at least, im not sure if there is a PWM model.
also, its perfectly okay to have them plugged into the pdp and running on robot startup, but not connected to the motors? |
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We made a large investment in 24 Talon SRX's, as our design requires twelve and we're building a practice bot on top of the competition ones. So far, we've been VERY happy with them compared to the Jags we used previously.
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For critical components, we're also late adopters. 8 SR's on our bot (1 spare).
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Also CAN wiring is a lot better than PWM wiring. |
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