[marshall]

Originally Posted by s1900ahon

True.



Glimpse for some, taste for others, a meal for very few. Rarely does improvement occur when one iteration is allowed (we made improvements to the Jaguar from Grey to Black version, but not significant enough to address the major issues). Believe it or not, we had concepts in mind for an SRX-like design back in 2012, but we couldn't convince TI to allow us to follow on. Well, it probably wound't have sold for what the SRX does had it been allowed.

Anyhow, back to the subject of the thread at hand: I need to find where I put some old power resistors...

I take it you were involved with the design for the Jaguar... We were one of the few teams who adopted them and the 2CAN (both versions) and stuck with them. We really enjoyed using them and when conformal coating was added they got even better because we quit frying two per year. We also lost a few from failed firmware updates. One of them I managed to recover using one of the TI launchpads in the kit.

Can you explain the decision behind using RJ11 as the data connector though? I've always wondered about it. Was it just a convenient form factor? Were any other options ever discussed or considered?