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Re: Cheaper Alternative to Tallon
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Originally Posted by bharrison6 View Post
Is there any pwm or CAN operated motor controllers that are cheaper to buy than what is normally used for FRC.
What size motor are you looking to drive?

For my senior design project two years ago we used a pair of L298N Full H-Bridges to control a couple of vex 269 motors. The control wasn't fancy, just a duty cycle at about 20kHz to keep it above the audible range.

Sparkfun has these and breakout boards for pretty cheap -
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9479
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9540

The nice part about VEX was the integrated encoders, the less mechanical design us EEs and CompEs had to do the better.
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