Thread: REV Sparks or Vex Victor 888?
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Re: REV Sparks or Vex Victor 888?
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One thing that people are forgotten to mention is that the spark motor controller is more linear than the victor 888. That means as a PWM signal increases, the motor will increase at a more constant rate if you are using a spark motor controller.
Just to back up my previous statement. The Spark motor controller has very similar specs to the Jaguar motor controller. Both have a switching frequency of 15.625 kHz and switch using synchronous rectification. Knowing that, it is safe to assume that the Spark motor controller would follow the path of the jaguar on the graph bellow.

My source for this graph.
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