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

[slijin]

Originally Posted by otherguy

We pulled breakers out of the PD board. on jags through the line while maintaining comms with the Jags along the chain.

The schematic for the tan Jag is available online (to substantiate my claim): http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spmu022c/spmu022c.pdf see page 42 upper right hand corner.

Could the problem you saw have to do with wiring?

Oh, I see. I was wondering if you had taken an actual failed Jaguar (i.e. one that wasn't functional) to see if it would facilitate a network connection.

The problem we had wasn't due to wiring (confirmed by swapping wires between connections to confirm functionality), but more likely due to internal Jaguar complications (which seem to pervade all our attempts to coax them into being functional).

In any case, I would believe that the rationale behind a backbone would be that it would allow one's CAN to continue functioning even in the event of a bizarre Jaguar breakdown in which the hardwired connection is somehow shorted or cut.