View Single Post
  #72   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 02-03-2012, 19:03
Matt Krass's Avatar
Matt Krass Matt Krass is offline
"Old" and Cranky. Get off my lawn!
AKA: Dark Ages
FRC #0263 (Sachem Aftershock)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Rookie Year: 2002
Location: Long Island, NY
Posts: 1,187
Matt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond reputeMatt Krass has a reputation beyond repute
Send a message via AIM to Matt Krass
Re: Jaguars vs Victors

Quote:
Originally Posted by techhelpbb View Post
The last I read in this topic the idea was to produce measurements to compare the Jaguar and the Victors and the interest in that effort.
I'm a fan of this idea, I didn't mean to accidentally kick off a whole new topic in here to that end I've started a new thread here to continue this discussion.

Back on to Victors and Jaguars, I'd really like the opinion of some of the veteran EEs around here on my idea for a test rig I mentioned earlier. Essentially, I'd be alternating between a Jaguar sourcing current to a Victor and the opposite, using something with a sufficiently intelligent brain to control both and perhaps some kind of active load between them. While doing this, we can monitor all of their vitals (mostly temperature of the FETs in question) and we can do some pretty terrible things to them and see how they handle it.

A bank of FETs with beefy heat sinks combined with some smoothing LC networks off each speed controller would make a nice load I think, how about it?

Matt
__________________
Matt Krass
If I suggest something to try and fix a problem, and you don't understand what I mean, please PM me!

I'm a FIRST relic of sorts, I remember when we used PBASIC and we got CH Flightsticks in the KoP. In my day we didn't have motorized carts, we pushed our robots uphill, both ways! (Houston 2003!)