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Re: The Pulsinator is Here!
As a member of Team 2175 and the Spinoff development team, I can attest to the Pulsinator's unique usefulness. During prototyping, we used to lug out a very heavy variable voltage power supply to run our intake prototypes, but with the Pulsinator, a motor controller, and a battery, our prototyping is lighter and more mobile.
In competitions, the Pulsinator has rescued our team multiple times. When we had drivetrain issues in time-crunched situations, we were able to easily diagnose the problem using the Pulsinator and determine that our cables were ripped or that our motor needed to be replaced. Without the Pulsinator, we would have had to test the motors with code and/or do continuity tests on all our wires individually, which would have consumed a lot of time that we didn't have.
I really like having the Pulsinator because it makes motor, controller, and cable testing so much easier and takes a lot of the uncertainty and hassle out of troubleshooting (in addition to replacing those heavy lab power supplies).
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