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Re: Ghost in the machine

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Originally Posted by engunneer View Post
One option with the (talon srx) can controllers is that they will actually respond to pm signals on the can wires. So if it was some kind of power glitch that the controller thought was a pwm pulse, it could maybe twitch the motors.
I raised the possibility of a power glitch as a potential explanation for the PWM controllers' misbehavior, but I couldn't think of any way that the CAN controllers could be made to behave in the same way, so we haven't yet pursued that possibility very far.

Come to think of it, however, I believe that we are indeed running Talon SRX's for the CAN-controlled motors... After checking out the user guide for these controllers (link), I'm thinking that we should indeed reopen that branch of the investigation!
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