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Re: Motor Controller Amt per Motor?

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Originally Posted by cgmv123 View Post
You can split the PWM output from the sidecar/input to the speed controller into 2 controllers. That way it's almost impossible to destroy the motors/gearbox by spinning one motor one way and one motor the other way.
What if you are not using PWM but the Jaguar CAN bus? I assume we will just program the same value to both motors and it will work? We haven't done two motors in the same gear-box before so we don't know what to expect in terms of programming. The concern was that code can only program one motor at a time (issuing CAN command to the Jaguar). So one motor will start a little earlier than the other one. So there is a short period that one motor would carry the whole load + turning the second motor at the same time. Probably not too much to worry but just like to hear your opinions on this.
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