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Re: Poll on winning teams using practice bots

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Originally Posted by mandrews281 View Post
The main downside was our single electrical panel. It had all our Jaguars on it. We use CAN bus and direct connect many sensors to the Jaguars. So we had to have connectors for all the wiring (power and sensors). We had cronic problems with the encoder signals and at Championships we soldered around the connectors for two encoders. One of our off-season projects for electrical is to find better connectors for the sensors.
The TechnoKats Lunacy robot had an electrical/controls box that was completely separable from the rest of the robot. All of the sensor signals went through a single DB-25 connector. We occasionally used a long extension cable to connect the box to the robot during software development.
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