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Re: [FRC Blog] 2017 Motor (and Servo?) Controllers and MXP

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Originally Posted by bobbysq View Post
Agreed. The DMC60 apears to just be a Victor SP clone that costs $10 more. The SD540C is intriguing though, having CAN for only $50. I'm not sure it provides much of an advantage over the SPARK still though, unless you want to use more than 10.

The REV servo controller seems interesting, although I can't seem to find it on REV's site. If it's just a single thing for a servo, it might not be worth it, (and one could probably inject more power into the PWM wires by splicing) but if it has multiple ports, it could be cool to have if you had a lot of servos.
I also couldn't find the new Huskie board either, and that certainly seems interesting. 3061 posted an image of it on their twitter account, but this is all that I've seen of it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcwNFi2WIAAy5H9.jpg.

Honestly, looking at the DMC-60's manual, it looks like it was trying to be a SP but then they went over budget. $10 cheaper, it would have been great. But hey, it now has four lights. How's that for innovation? I'll get our robot to look even more like a disco on the inside.

I do think CAN offers a lot of advantages over a PWM controller like the SPARK. Assuming they can solve some of the issues that the one amazon review had pointed out (the amazon product page has seemingly disappeared, presumably to replace with the SD540C), I think this could be a great product.
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