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Re: What do you think of the jaguars?

We haven't had any trouble with the Jaguars. We have four of them, driving all the motors that need precise speed control, plus a few Victors driving the rest of the motors. Ours are mounted vertically in a covered wooden box that opens away from the rest of the robot, so it would be very difficult for stray particles to get into them. also none of our motors are heavily loaded, by design.

LM (and IFI for that matter) could do a much better job of marking the terminals, it would not take too much effort for them to put big, legible warning lables stating which side goes to the motor, and which to the battery, and warning about polarity. This could save teams a lot of heartache...we all know that everyone should know how to wire things properly, but reality is that a lot of people who work on the robots are still learning about electricity, and taking extra steps to reduce expensive mistakes is warranted.