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Re: Jaguars vs Victors

I'd just like to point out something about this situation.

First, let me be upfront and say I'm not the biggest fan of Jaguars, I prefer Victors because I find them simpler, smaller and generally more robust. I also find that they can take more roughhousing than the Jaguars, which give up somewhat easily in my opinion.

That said, your Jaguars are trying to tell you something, if your system is constantly going in to fault mode and shutting down, your solution should not ever involve getting rid of the device that is shutting you down in favor of one that will ride things out until the (bitter) end. It is faulting out for some reason and you should stop to think about what reason that is. Perhaps the Jaguars are giving up too easily, but I suspect (as others have suggested earlier) you have a legitimate problem.

Bottom line, if your robot is complaining a lot, it might just be whining, or it might be warning you about a problem before it's too late!

I think you've already learned this lesson, but I just wanted to reinforce it.
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