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Originally Posted by Ari423
Actually with the new PDP you can get current draws for each power output. So as long as each motor controller is wired 1:1 with a power output on the PDP (which it should be according to 2015 rules), you can get the current draw from each motor.
See documentation here: http://www.ctr-electronics.com/contr...ription_tabbed
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OK - thanks. I forgot about that feature. But in my defense, it's still CAN that makes it all possible.
As a mentor whose teams have used CAN beginning way back in 2009 when the Jags first came on the scene, I guess I had gotten used to promoting the current sensing feature of the CAN controllers a little too much. In 2012, when the bugs in the CAN stack and the unreliability of the RJ-11 connectors became too much to handle, I was sorry to see that particular feature go. So when CAN looked like it was going to be viable once again last year, I was ready and willing to give it another go, and I, for one, am glad we did.