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Re: [FRC Blog] 2015 Control System and Kit of Parts Survey

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Originally Posted by Michael Hill View Post
I think you, to quote Dubbya, "misunderestimate" most other teams. I saw the new current sensing ability and immediately saw the benefit. Remember how a lot of teams are having issues tripping the main breaker with 6 CIMs and a compressor? That can now be a problem of the past.
Although I think that the compressor will be run in a closed loop without any way of code affecting it, you are certainly right. We had 6 cims on our drive train this year and we often browned out the cRIO with about 20 seconds left in the match. Having the ability to see the current being pulled would let us stop that from ever happening again.
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