[ruhiyyeh]

We've been having quite a few problems with our jaguars for our drivebase. We had two coupled cim motors, and one motor's jaguar failed (we noticed the smell and the fact that one motor was hot while the other was cold). That was replaced a couple times, until we borrowed a jaguar that worked. Then the jaguar for the other motor seemed to have problems, though at least it didn't smell burnt. On the field, we noticed that our bot would start off fine, then begin to stop and start. It would get slower over time. We thought that it might be because the jaguar was getting too much current and then failing for a moment, causing the other jaguar to fail in return. We figured this caused a cycle of jaguars failing repeatedly, causing our robot to be slow when only one had failed, and stop completely when both had.

So we replaced them with victors. Last I heard, one of the victors had burnt out, possibly because it couldn't handle the current.

All our other jaguars and victors work perfectly. Our batteries were freshly charged, and I made sure that the pwms were in the right orientation.