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Re: Advantage of CAN?

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Originally Posted by Cecil View Post
As far as advantages, the main one that I personally like is no more zip tying PWM wires together to run them across the robot several times. With CAN, the Jaguars can be daisy chained together, making it look a lot cleaner and easier to find faults.
To further extend this description, CAN has positive locking connections. We've always experienced problems with getting PWM connectors to stay connected.
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