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Re: Can Victor and Jaguar motors work together on a single gearbox?

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Originally Posted by dsirovica View Post
To conclude:
Different controllers is not recommended
I would make a distinction between

a) I recommend that you not do that

and

b) I don't recommend that you do that (but I don't say not to either). In other words, the jury is still out.

I'm in the (b) camp.

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The only negative result may be that one motor works harder than the other and will get hotter.
We don't know for sure yet that's the only negative result, but it seems to be the case. In any event, two things appear to be true:

1) one motor working harder than the other happens all the time even with the same model motors and motor controllers, albeit on a smaller scale, due to manufacturing tolerances and wear.

2) it can be mitigated in code by running the joystick outputs through a simple LUT or polynomial.



Last edited by Ether : 19-01-2014 at 18:14.