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

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Originally Posted by Jefferson View Post
I'm not sure how it's "way more complicated than it needs to be". It has power, pressure switch, and CAN bus inputs. And compressor and solenoid outputs. It's as dead simple as it can be.
And, you're talking about using $140 in spikes to avoid buying a $90 board that can power twice as many solenoids.
I charge my pneumatics with a relay that is many years old. I buy a single $34.95 relay for shifting. I would not like to purchase $180 worth of pneumatics boards, instead, I would like to purchase 1 new spike relay for use on the competition robot, and use an older relay for our practice robot. That is spending 5 times as much money to accomplish the same task. In my personal opinion, providing CAN functionality to the pneumatics board is too complicated.
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