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Re: FRC Blog - 2016 Motor Controllers

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
Agreed. This should be a huge consideration for all teams. However I worry that the teams who barely have time to finish a moving/functional robot are not going to have the resources to dedicate to power management solutions to avoid brownout conditions. Perhaps this is a topic for another thread, but we as a community will need to work hard to educate teams about this constraint.
Agreed. We're going to end up with some mentors and students working on power management based around current monitoring from the PDP. Hopefully we can write a whitepaper about it once we've figured out how to implement it.
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