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Originally Posted by Dale
Also, we've learned the hard way to be carefull about going full forward to instantly full reverse on the drive system. We blew all four of our Jaguars when our programmers decided to "stress test" the robot before they had ramping code included. We did indeed find the week spot in the chain...the Jaguars.
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Huh? I've NEVER seen that happen before. I mean, sure, there's a lot of back-current that gets generated when you try to stop a motor quickly, but I've never seen it blow a Jag.
On a related note, though, at Champs a couple years ago we had some "ghost" in our drivetrain where if we didn't do ramping code we'd brown-out the entire electrical system. Then again, we were using Victors and not Jags, but I don't blame the Victors - we literally swapped out every electrical component (except the motors) and never got rid of it.
-Danny