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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto
Having the existing wire on the Victor SP is a nice time-saver if you plan out your electronics layout properly. You should be locating your speed controllers near the PDP regardless, and sending the existing Victor SP input wires straight to the PDP saves a lot of crimping and heatshrink time!
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This is what has affected our decisions the most too. For runs that are close enough to use the integrated wires, the SPs and SRXs are amazing. The damaging the integrated cables has not been anywhere near as bad as I feared, we haven't had to retire any of our controllers due to this yet!
The key advantages to the SPARK, are the cost and limit switches. I think with all the available motor controllers in the KoP, FIRST Choice and PDV. The lower resource teams should be able to get more than enough SPs, SPARKS and 888s. The SPARKs limit switch input is feature that is absolutely amazing in it's specific use case (actuators with end stops), especially for the price given the other option is a SRX.
Our team is using a combination of SPs and SRXs for the reasons above. I must say I'm not a big fan of having the long CAN cables on the SRXs, partley due to how small they are (and I love how small they are) we haven't found a nice solution to cable management without cutting significant lengths off (which we're against for obvious reasons).