08-03-2009, 10:05
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Mad Scientist
AKA: Me
 FRC #2040 (DERT) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Rookie Year: 2003
Location: Peoria, IL
Posts: 1,967
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Re: how many people have had failing jaguars
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Originally Posted by ruhiyyeh
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.
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Sounds to me like your CIMs are drawing more than 40 AMPs. That will cause your snap action breaker to trip and then reset. Since it's a thermal driven device once it trips it will trip again quicker and stay tripped longer each time.
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