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Re: Victor 888: Upgrade to the Victor 884

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Originally Posted by jwfoss View Post
If I remember correctly, there was a number of teams running the Talon motor controller at IRI and it seemed well up to the challenge. Perhaps they can speak up here.

I spent some time at their booth talking to them about it. Besides the linear output another nice feature was a tighter fit on the pwm cable (I saw them lift the controller while it was powered up by the pwn cable)

The heat sink looked nice and seemed to go further with protecting the internals of the unit, and it still retained mounting holes for a standard fan.
This is interesting.
I never saw Mike talk about it at all when I saw the Talon, but this alone would make me choose this over the current 884s, even with the price difference. What about the 888's?
We've had instances with failed Jags before and never went back to them, other than a few robot functions for "smoother" output. The Victors size and reliabilty are so much better, other than the occasional poor connection with the PWM input.
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