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Re: CAN on the entire 2012 robot

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Originally Posted by JDNovak View Post
As several have alluded to, a cable problem usually takes the whole system down due to daisy chaning and failed termination. I intend to create a bus system that reduces this weakness similar to the ones referred to above.
Our team ran 7 Jags on a T-tap bus topology like the following:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...t=99554&page=3
We never had any problem with it. We had a couple of bad CAN cables but they were quickly identified and replaced. Since they weren't daisy chained, only the bad ones showed up with problems, the others kept on working.
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