Unexplained intermittent CAN / 2CAN Jaguar problems at GSR

[nuttle]

Do you know if your 2CAN has had the firmware updated to version 2.5 or not? We have a regional this coming week/end and will try out v29 on the cRIO. We've been using serial, but it is easy enough to switch back and forth that we might try the 2CAN again, at least for practice matches. We have not yet had a chance to try either of these updates.

[John Heden]

Originally Posted by nuttle

Do you know if your 2CAN has had the firmware updated to version 2.5 or not? We have a regional this coming week/end and will try out v29 on the cRIO. We've been using serial, but it is easy enough to switch back and forth that we might try the 2CAN again, at least for practice matches. We have not yet had a chance to try either of these updates.

Yes! We updated to V29 and had V2.5. We started to try a switch to serial but ran into some difficulties trying to craft a proper RS232 to Black JAG cable during the competition as well as finding a RS232 to USB converter. There were a number of folks at Hartford who were suspicious of the 2CAN and suggested that a RS232 conversion might solve our intermittent problem. We remain optimistic that a robust 2CAN solution is possible.