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Re: blog; Motor Controller Options for 2015

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Originally Posted by marshall View Post
To my knowledge (and I haven't looked at all of the ISO standards and heaven only knows I could be wrong) there is nothing prohibiting the use of a star topology with a CAN network rather than a daisy chain topology.
(Passive) star topologies are more susceptible to reflections and fan-out problems than traditional bus topologies and are best avoided for CAN networks in my experience.
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