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Unread 08-08-2013, 22:04
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Re: NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel

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Originally Posted by RufflesRidge View Post
FRC speed controllers don't connect the power pin to anything, odds are that they just routed 6v to the power pin on all of the PWM pins.
Correct. PWM power pins are 6V, and you get a couple of amps for driving servos.

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The CAN connector looks a lot like the power connector on the 2CAN. Probably just the two wires. As a differential bus CAN shouldn't need the 5V and GND being passed around.
Correct as well - the CAN topology in this system does not distribute power. Power would be supplied to each device separately.
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