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Re: blog; Motor Controller Options for 2015
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Originally Posted by FrankJ
Since I don't speak for the Cross the Road people, this is based on what I know about CAN. CAN is a two wire bus. It is intended to be daisy chained. That would be the reason for two pairs. One in & one out. The legs of the pairs would be connected together in the Talon. I know some people use the star configuration for CAN & get away with it. It is not to the standard & it in not a best practice.
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My only problem with the daisy-chain configuration is that it greatly exacerbates the failure mode. It's rather annoying to lose half of your motor controllers instead of just one of them.
It would be nice if there were a supported alternative.
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