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Re: Jaguar Cut-Out

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Originally Posted by mikets View Post
Our team has written a wrapper class for the CANJaguar which will auto detect power cycled and reset all the configurations. See the following thread. By using this class instead of the CANJaguar class, all Jaguars are protected by this recovery.
http://chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpo...2&postcount=19
I like that! Thanks for the suggestion; that would make for neat encapsulation and reusability.

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Originally Posted by brian.axelrod View Post
Hello slijin,

You should consider writing getFaults() to a file when you run into issues. That way if you have trouble during a match you'll have data to troubleshoot later. We've found that the jaguars aren't usually the first to fail in a low voltage situation.

If you continue having troubles at NYC, feel free to stop by team 846's pit, we've been using jaguars exclusively on the CAN bus for a couple of years now and we can help you out.

Regards
Brian
Since we put data to the SmartDashboard, we have been saving the .csv of every robot run on our laptop. This helps with the troubleshooting you described above, as we also put data about commands being run on the robot and robot voltage.

Also, thank you for your offer to help at NY. This is our first year rolling on to the field with Jaguars installed; for three out of our four past years we have attempted to use them on some component and then returned to Victors after reliability issues during Build Season.