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Re: Electrical Board or Distributed System?
We have used a centralized control board each year so far. Every year we re-consider whether the board will be centralized or distributed. The greater ability to program and trouble shoot a removable board has so far trumped the modularity aspect. After our first two years, not only do we keep the board centralized, we have it oriented so that we can see all (or at least most) of it at one time.
We did move our pneumatics control module to the back with the compressor and other pneumatics components.
We also considered moving individual Talon SRXs to be near their motors and encoders to shorten the encoder cable lengths.
* That is, easier to see all the lights at once, and easier to trace the shorter signal runs.
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