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Re: Inexpensive Slip Ring for Turret

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
Six wires should be enough for two motors with feedback, if you can get enough power through two 30A breakers. Put two Talon SRXs on the turret. Run power for them and one CAN pair. Terminate the CAN bus on the turret so you don't need it to return. Then wire sensors to the SRX inputs. You have four limit switches and at least two encoders or analog sensors you can connect, getting all that info back and forth through two wires.
Are you certain that the implementation of CAN used on the RoboRIO will operate in a noisy environment like that? I know that some implementations are capable of that but I don't know the details behind ours (or those implementations). From what I understood the more noise you deal with the less speed the bus operates with.
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