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Unread 22-01-2011, 18:17
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Re: CAN Installation Details

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Originally Posted by duane View Post
Why is the DS communication required? We have a StartCommunication in the vi, but have not turned on or connected the DriverStation.

We're just trying to see if we can control a single motor. Seems like this should be pretty easy. :-)

Thank you for the examples, we'll give them a look. I'm concerned that the example expects an entire set of motors, etc. All we have connected to the cRio is one Jaguar and one motor. The idea was to demonstrate the minimum requirements for using the Jaguar.
The reason you need the driver station to test is the Jaguars have a safety system integrated that only allows them to operate when the driver station enables the robot. This way the robot can always be disabled from the driver station remotely.

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