During beta testing we decided to crimp the CAN talons with a three pin header with the center pin left empty. We did this on both ssets of CAN cables on the controller.
Reasons for doing it this way:
- we already had the crimpers and connectors for PWM cables.
- female headers prevent exposed contacts that could short to the chassis
- using a 3 pin connector with the center pin empty allows the controllers to be plugged in to the roboRIO maintaining support for PWM capability.
- it makes it easy to daisychain controllers together, just use a 3pin male header (see below)
The pin headers for connecting two female cables:
http://www.hansenhobbies.com/product...pt1in_srfma40/