Thread: Autonomous: Mixing Drive Distance PID's with Turn Angle PID's.
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Re: Autonomous: Mixing Drive Distance PID's with Turn Angle PID's.
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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
I WISH I trusted the jaguars enough to use them on our drivetrain. Perhaps I'm being paranoid, but I still worry about them burning out on fast full-reverse to full-forward transitions. The voltage mode and their linearity looks wonderful!
You and me both. The 2011 hardware beta test teams have been experimenting with a new version of the Jaguar firmware that implements an "output ramp" function in both PWM and CAN modes to help deal with this case, so hopefully that will help.
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