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Thumbs up Re: Speed Controller Design

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Originally Posted by Geek 2.0 View Post
I've been looking at designs for speed controllers (mostly Jaguars, because I can get my hands on those schematics). Frankly, they're overpriced, and if I want to build my own robot (outside of FIRST), I'd much rather design my own (or at least make a hearty attempt).
I feel extremely comfortable with disagreeing with you on this point, but instead lets agree to ammend the statement with "for your purposes".

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Originally Posted by Geek 2.0 View Post
My issue is this: By looking at the design and not knowing what signals CTRLA, CTRLB, PWMA, and PWMB are (since they're coming out of the microcontroller, I don't know what they are unless I were to have the uncompiled firmware for the Jaguar), I can't see this thing working in theory.
The firmware for the non FRC specific version is freely available for download on the RDK CD.

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My laptop is broken, so I can't spend much CD time these days. I'd be happy to walk you through this when I get a replacement.