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Re: Standard Motor Driver Schematic for FRC
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Originally Posted by zcohen
One big thing you're missing too is these are reusable. That was largely a one time cost compared to motors/gearboxes/framing/etc which far exceeds 2k a year.
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Thank you for bringing this point into the discussion. FRC approved motor controllers are durable.
This year we are running several Talon SRs that we've used in two previous seasons. We also have the same number of new SPARKs, which are on our practice robot. After those have proved reliability we intend to re-use them on future robots. To date we have had no failures of Talon SRs (which are obsolete) or of SPARKs.
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 since 2003
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