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Re: Robots not under driver control- does it happen- do you determine why?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Related note: was your problem jag a black jaguar on your drivetrain or another system subject to sudden heavy current reversals? The gray jags have issues with sudden reversals blowing up gate drivers and disabling half the h bridge. Perhaps the new ones are subject to some other, more unlikely sort of failure when hit with a sudden reversal.
It used to be on the drivetrain.
We noticed that it sometimes stuttered (and would produce a whole bunch of CAN errors) and then we took it out.
When it was run under BDC-COMM, it wasn't connected to any motors just the Serial port and terminator.
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