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Re: Victors verses Jaguars?

personally, i would say avoid jags for any of the high current motors. the cims and rs-775's generate a lot of electrical noise, and this is what we believe to be the culprit behind our CAN problems. the Current control is very nice for some things. i think that a mix of jags and victors would probably be ideal. jags on the smaller motors where more finesse is necessary (550's, 395's) and victors or spikes everywhere else.


another reason to use victors on the high current motors is that they are typicaly in the drive-train, which means that they should have encoders on them already, and if that is the case then the sensing capability of the jag is unneeded. with voltage and speed, current and anything else you want can be calculated.

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