Reversed Polarity

[Kevin Sevcik]

Digikey doesn't have them at the moment, actually. They seem to be out of stock. Along with the rest of the world.

As Daniel says, you're going to be fighting quite an uphill battle trying to repair those. I think you have two options:
1. Beg, borrow, or buy any black or grey jaguars off of teams that are near you.
2. Switch to VexPro Victor 884 Speed Controllers. There's loads of teams that swear by them anyways, and they're $10 cheaper than Jags. If you're not using the advanced functionality of the Jaguars, these will work atleast as well for you.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

they're $10 cheaper than Jags

Where can Victors be bought for $75?

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Ether

Where can Victors be bought for $75?

Where can you get a Black Jaguar for $85? Vex is selling Victors for $89. I was comparing to the AM discounted Jaguar Bundle price of $99. Digikey will sell them to you for $109, though you do get a $50 voucher at Digikey. That's pretty much the price at Mouser, Avnet, Newark, and TI itself. None of whom have stock, so you can't have a Jaguar at any price anyways, but still.

TI says Rochester Electronics has 50 Jaguars in stock, and Rochester lists some if you search for "MDL-BDC24", but I'll be darned if I know how you order some from them.

[Mark McLeod]

Digikey sells them to FIRST teams at a special discount.
$85

Don't pay list price.

[FrankJ]

The first discount at digikey Is $85.
Go here

Should work even if you have used your $50.00 coupon. But they are not showing stock

[cgmv123]

DigiKey is supposed to be selling Jaguars to FIRST teams for $85. I think that's what we payed for ours.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Alllright. I'm confused because that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere at all this year, and the discounted price was specifically mentioned in prior years. I assumed the $50 voucher was a replacement for it. If someone has actually ordered $85 Jaguars from Digikey this year, then I'll stand corrected.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Alllright. I'm confused because that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere at all this year, and the discounted price was specifically mentioned in prior years.

It's at http://www.ti.com/jaguar

[Kevin Sevcik]

Well nevermind then. Victors cost about the same as Jags. Still doesn't change the fact that the world is out of stock of them.

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Digikey doesn't have them at the moment, actually. They seem to be out of stock. Along with the rest of the world.

As Daniel says, you're going to be fighting quite an uphill battle trying to repair those. I think you have two options:
1. Beg, borrow, or buy any black or grey jaguars off of teams that are near you.
2. Switch to VexPro Victor 884 Speed Controllers. There's loads of teams that swear by them anyways, and they're $10 cheaper than Jags. If you're not using the advanced functionality of the Jaguars, these will work atleast as well for you.

CD swap shows someone with victors offering them to us. check him out. No jaguars listed, but you could enter a NEED for them if you like. I don't know if we have unused ones in our chaotic "storehouse".

I second the need for determining how to prevent reverse polarity disasters by figuring out how it happened. It's an uphill struggle to convince the team members that I'm not seeking a blame target. It's been rare or absent in their lives so far.