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Re: What do you think of the jaguars?

Maybe to counter some of the bias that appears in these threads (people with negative experiences tend to speak up more often), that apart from the increased real estate the Jaguars eat up, we've had absolutely no operational issues with them on both our competition and practice robots. Since we still have a bunch of Victor 884s around, we only used the four Jaguars that came in the KoP, two on the drive train of each robot.

Once our supply of Victors runs out (or as soon as they allow us to use the CAN bus and the advanced features of the Jaguars), we'll be using Jaguars for most functions on our robots except in locations where space is an issue. *cough* smaller Jaguars would be awesome *cough*
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