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Re: What is CAN

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Originally Posted by MysterE View Post
Hi all -

I've seen a number of posts on CD about CAN and have been a loss. If anyone can explain CAN, I'd be appreciative.

Thanks :-)
CAN stands for "Controller Area Network" and is a vehicle communication system developed by Bosch. Bosch developed CAN as a standard method of communication between all of the various controller modules in a car.

CAN works very well as a method to communicate between multiple control modules. Since the Jag speed controllers have their own on-board processing, you can think of them as individual control modules which you can communicate with using CAN.

More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
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