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Re: TI and future Jaguars

Lets see if we can agree on a few observations (I don’t know if they are correct):
1. The volume of FIRST is too low for healthy commercial interest.
2. The motor controller for FIRST has no other significant market.

If #1 & #2 are true then we are stuck and we have to beg a vendor for charity.

I am not sure (though this is not my field) that #2 needs to be true. Maybe it is true for the Jags but the Victors seems are used elsewhere too. So maybe what we need to do is to find something that is close (eg. Victor) and ask/beg that vendor to augment their controller for FIRST and hopefully encourage them to find other applications too. Who makes the Vics – maybe we can ask them – I read somewhere FIRST consumed 60K Vics so far. However, my team and many others it seems burn a few Vics every season so there is probably no incentive to change the design 

I think Techhelpbb said that in industry people don’t use generic speed controller like a Jaguar but custom design things for each application. I wonder why that is, and maybe a generic speed controller needs to hit a price point for that to change?

Dean
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