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Re: Jaguars vs Victors

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Originally Posted by slijin View Post
That's extraordinarily unlikely. If anything, the Jaguar's built in overcurrent protection should be preventing such a crash. The 24V power supply can handle voltage dips to 4.5V. If your battery voltage is low enough for one 40A draw to sink it below that level, then you need a new battery.
Sorry I don't know how to add a link to a post , but there are test results posted under
CD>technical>programming>Voltage vs. PercentVbus

In there you will see that the Jags do not cut out at 40A precicely - I believe it is a thermal mechanism. We were getting 100A+ spikes and 80A+ for many seconds before cut out. You will also see a very minimalistic settup and the cRIO crashes consistently -see CIM Test #6 & 7

In the same thread a contributor who appears to be from NI says the 8 slot cRIO (which ours is) needs 19V to work. We did not test that.

So far no one else has responded that they too had cRIO crashes when CIMs stall, so it may be something with our PDB it is an old war scarred PDB so will do more tests and report back when we recover from the post bagging depression