[Joe Ross]

We've been using Jaguars since 2009. Since then, we've used approximately twice as many Jaguars as Victors. We've had 1 jaguar failure (in the regional finals) and one victor failure (in the championship division semi-finals). I think that just shows that things fail at the worst possible times. When choosing between them, the main thing we look at is whether we need control, and if we do, we use a jaguar.

I think that poor protection of the electronics while working is a major failure contribution. The Jaguars are not conformal coated, while the Victors are. NI has also said that a significant number of cRIO failures are due to swarf.

Every time we've had the jaguar over-current protection kick in, we were able to trace it to a loose wire somewhere in the current path or a very low robot battery. In that respect, it's been helpful because it caused us to look for the root cause.