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Originally Posted by apalrd
Edit: I see absolutely no reasons to use a Jaguar in FRC. The reliability history is poor (in my time on 33 we've blown ~3x more Jaguars than Victors, yet used ~6x more Victors on robots), although the changes by IFI should help that, the CAN implementation is poor (synchronous blocking) and increases single point failures, and they're freaking huge.
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If you are careful about avoiding metal shavings raining down on the Jags, I'm not sure they are any less reliable than some lots of Digital Sidecars.
The DSC is also a single point of failure and disables all PWM controlled motors, whereas with a daisy chained CAN bus you may have several motors operational before the cabling failure point.
However I don't argue with your other points about size & CAN blocking implementation.