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Re: Reading Battery Voltage

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Originally Posted by jee7s View Post
Aside from that, I'm pretty sure the cRIO chassis will work, or a black motor terminal on a Jaguar, or the black terminal on a spike.
The black motor terminal of the Jaguar is not a valid common node, it can be connected to both the positive or negative or neither depending on what the Jaguar is doing and how it is configured.

The black power input to the Jaguar (directly across) should be acceptable to use though, at least as far as multimeter probes go.
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