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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk
...provided teams are willing to pay ~40$ more and put up with a highly non-linear drive characteristic in favor of footprint and a lack of a latching over-current protection.
IMHO, the only advantage the victor has is size. The cost advantage and the linearity advantage leads me to believe that the Jaguar will see a lot of play this year.
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Wait... so your telling me that for this season, a victor's only advantage is size? The fact that a an overcurrent on a jaguar causes it to shutdown until a neutral signal is given scares me. Do you know how hectic it is for a driver in a match? How is he immediately supposed to diagnose an overcurrented controller and stop? The alternative being building some some sort of electronic monitering also doesn't appeal to me. Even if could be entirely done in code, the fact we have to send a nuetral signal upsets me.
With the victors, I've never seen one overcurrent in recent times. Heck, I've never had a 40 amp breaker pop during a match on any team I've been on in recent times.
You just made my team's decision for us. I had even got over my dislike of the new system, I had no unfair bias against it. Even if the jaguar doesn't overcurrent often, we'll be using victors. I feel IFI deserves it (2 robots with 6-10 motor controllers each is a lot of business for IFI, we don't have many spares), as for some reason it became cool for some at FIRST to hate them and make snide remarks whenever possible. I love IFI for what they did, and I hope oneday I'll learn to love NI, Luminary Micro, and the other companies for their new system (that love has to be earned with proven reliability and results, so I'm not bashing the new system).
We were seriously considering using all Jaguars for the "better performance".... but IFI is good people.