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Re: Jaguars
The two most important features of a speed controller are reliability and cost. We don't want to worry about swapping out controllers after a match, and we really want to avoid failures during the match. Reliability is also important because we use previous years speed controllers on the practice robot. This year, our practice bot had victors from 2003 and 2004 that have already been used on at least two robots. Victors are the only controller with this type of reliability. They are also the cheapest.
As for the extra features, I think they're a waste. We end up wrapping the speed controller class to add a few utilities, so it's easy to add a pidcontroller and and the function to make the output linear. The jaguars don't really have any features that can't be done on the crio.
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