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Re: New Talon Speed Controller

Greetings, a new season has begun! and we seem to have a new speed controller that looks like a Vic!

A quick look at the Jag schematic says that when the robot is pushed, the generated current will try to flow in such a way to charge the battery. But if the battery is not connected the voltage to the PDB will keep rizing... Is there something in the PDB that will shunt this current - or something will blow!

Dean

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Originally Posted by Camren View Post
Ok to clarify my above post.

Are team has found that any sort of free wheel action on the robot (ie pushing it) Causes the motors to become a generator that sends current back into the motor controller. Well with the Jaguars they didn't have anything to stop it so we fried a lot of them. The new Talon controller has