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Re: Looking at trying new things for next year. Fits into electrical and programming

Wiring with Can is much easier, it doesn't take up ay ports on the Radio, as it is Daisy chained to the a Can to serial Adaptor that is connected to the serial port on the cRio. The neat bit is that you can also use the BDC-COMM software and control the motors using a computer, and test various functions such as PID and Encoder values, without having to write program. The VEXPro resources for Jaguars goes into a lot of detail about that, and all the wiring of CAN.