09-12-2014, 12:39
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FRC RI/FLL Field Manager
AKA: Max Vrany
 FRC #1306 (BadgerBOTS) Team Role: College Student
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Rookie Year: 2011
Location: Madison, WI
Posts: 2,089
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Re: Keeping the main breaker from tripping
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Originally Posted by Chadfrom308
For current readings, we are using the IC from this board:
http://www.panucatt.com/Current_Sens..._p/cs-100a.htm
I don't use this for FIRST, but on the Formula SAE team I am on, we are using this to read the alternator current and the total current output by the PDB.
I don't know exactly if it is legal to put this in between the board and breaker, in fact, I'm pretty sure it's not. Also, we use either a 150a or 200a version of this, I cannot remember. It is like $17 minimum order for these of digikey (I think, I didn't order them) |
Current monitoring like this seems to be what the second sentence of 2014 R53 has in mind.
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