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Re: What do YOU want in the Kit of Parts?

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Originally Posted by Gdeaver View Post
Since TI doesn't want to support the jags anymore. Victors may be in the kit of parts. Maybe they could put a real FET driver chip in the victor and take the PWM frequency up and linearize the output. The Allegro chip would be a good choice. Up grade the FET choice and That should make some teams happy and solve the First speed controller sourcing problem. Oh and make the PWM 10 bit and extend the range like the jags. Then we're happy. Oh and make them reverse polarity protected and thermal protected. Then we're real happy.


I'd also like a USB port on the CRIO.
I'd love an upgraded victor, but the reverse polarity protection adds unnecessary cost combined with a performance loss. Thermal protection would also be unnecessary as Victors have no issues there.

What would be nice is just a victor with a faster refresh rate, the linearizing can be solved in code.