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Re: New Talon Speed Controller

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Originally Posted by kaliken View Post
In addition, one interesting thought would be a redundant control path. Since most teams stay away from CAN due to potential reliability problems(only year we had an issue was traced to a 775 case short) What would the prospects be to putting a redundant PWM/CAN interface ie. if CAN messages die, the motor controller can still be controlled via PWM. (disclaimer.. I work in the space industry so redundant paths are usually a must)
Even more so, I agree with this. I don't think it would be very hard to implement in software - correct me if I'm wrong. I know a feature like this would cause us to take a second, very long look at running CAN.
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