[LightWaves1636]

Originally Posted by Pjohn1959

That's one of the reasons that we don't use them. Victors are much more robust, and they don't take up as much room.

We use jags cause they're more powerful than using victors. The only weakness to jaguars are metal shavings have easier access getting in. Our current guesses are metal shavings got in. The only reason we would use victors are because of space.

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I've never had a jag explode on me, and very rarely had them fail. I think it's because we use rate limiting code to prevent instant changes in direction and we're absolutely religious about covering up our electronics board whenever we do any metal removal on the robot. The former is admittedly unique to the jaguar. The latter is necessary no matter what you're using.

I sure would like to see what made that jaguar explode. Pics or it didn't happen. Also, was it a black or a grey jag?

A grey jag. I'm pretty sure metal shavings got in cause I asked the students a little later:

"so, did you guys remember to cover the electronics when you were repairing the arm earlier?"

their response: a blank of look of let's not tell our mentors! lol, ah man

Honestly I thought it was an awesome way to go out. It's funny, we have friends at National Instruments and Texas Instruments that want to get their hands on it to see what happen. (hmmmmm, redesign for next year?)