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Originally Posted by KrazyCarl92
if one motor controller fails the whole robot is down (the poor durability of Jaguars exacerbated this issue, but Talons are far more durable, haven't had one fail yet).
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Great post, issues we ran up against with CAN as well, long before the current generation of CAN bus hardware and firmware.
One point I'll add though: the Talon SRX's CAN bus wires are hardwired together, soldered together onto the same pad on the pcb. Unless you short them together or somehow burn through the conductor completely, a controller failure will not bring the entire bus down.
We've heard good things about the new implementation, and fully upgraded this year to Talon SRXs from Talon SRs. We're excited to explore the possibilities, but of course ready to pull the plug and wire up PWM if needed.