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Re: Mixing Jaguars and Victors

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
If you use 2 Jags with CAN, you can balance the load by balancing the current. You could close the loop on speed for motor#1 and close the loop on current for motor#2 (to make motor#2 match motor#1 current). With some filters and careful tuning I'm guessing this could be made to work well.

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Precisely. We really ought to have some examples in WPIlib to do this.



I'd recommend against the Jaguar + Victor on one toughbox scenario. If you command e.g. 50% forward and hit free speed, you will have a motor/generator situation with potentially large currents. I don't believe it will destroy either controller, but it will be extremely inefficient.

Last edited by EricVanWyk : 18-05-2010 at 17:00. Reason: Clarity as to what the second paragraph was about.