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Originally Posted by cgmv123
I don't know how the RoboRIO will respond to a pulsed output like that of a speed controller, and I'm not sure I want to know.
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Yea, this is a bad idea. One of our mentors connected a motor controller up to another motor controller. The second one blew up pretty fast.
The very low impedance MOSFETs in the motor controller will rapidly switch between 12v and 0v continually. This will cause large, fast, voltage changes across the input capacitors on the roboRIO. That will cause them to heat up and blow up.