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Re: FRC Blog - 2016 Motor Controllers

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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto View Post
Cross The Road Electronics has posted a detailed report of some Motor Controller Output Power Testing they preformed with the four main FRC speed controllers on the market:
  • Victor SP
  • Talon SRX
  • SPARK
  • SD540

Link to .pdf document here

Please take note of the test results on page 7. I'm very concerned about the SD540's performance, particularly that the SD540 appears to brown out at 9.5V.

2016 will be the year of the brown out...

-Mike

Mike,

It is not brownout it is Seafty Feature, documents above says lockout due to Seafty feature,
I agree with this if you are going down to 8.2 V ( or even 10V ) you are seriously killing your battery.
Lead Acid battery do not like deep discharge, no matter what manufacturers say(deep discharge or what not), but they will not be same again if you discharge them down to 10.8V (1.8V per cell)
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