[Rookie] How to set up electrical the best way?

[slijin]

Originally Posted by otherguy

Just so you know... If a jaguar in a daisy chain fails, down stream jags are NOT affected. The contacts on the PCB are wired through (in to out) without going through active components.

The only exception to the rule is in the case where you are using the Jaguar as an RS232 to CAN bridge... Since that jaguar is actively translating commands, if it fails, the link fails. But again, any other Jag in the chain can lose power and everything will keep operating as it should.

Test it out for yourself - we did.

Just out of curiosity, how exactly did you conduct this test?

When experimenting with CAN last year, we ran into a Jaguar that terminated the network when the chain reached it (but we've had far more than our share of bizarre Jaguar phenomena).