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Re: Speed Controllers: Which is best?

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Originally Posted by Trent B View Post
Weren't able to get it changed fast enough, and timeout was already used, so it was either get DQed for not keeping up with time, or call in backup.

Had to run back to pits to track one down. Needless to say, I plan to have a spare victor on the cart at North Star.
If you have room and weight, you can always mount the spare victor on the robot itself, so if it ever happens again you just switch the output and PWM to the spare one and you are up and running again. We did that in 2011 and it saved us during the Finals.
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