Jaguars vs Victors

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Dean,
If I were to hazard a guess, I would think that the trip characteristics are more to protect the onboard power supplies over the FETs. At the currents and durations listed, I would guess that the voltage drop to the three terminal regulators is likely to cause them to drop out if the trip points were to be relaxed.

It's actually quite easy to brownout the Jaguars already with the sorts of systems common to this competition. As I have suggested elsewhere it's a shame that the Jaguars don't have a separate place to insert power for their logic (something common to older educational robot designs), a lower drop out regulator or more energy storage (larger capacitor, battery, etc).

Of course the bigger problem with the brownout as it is, is that if you're not in the default modes you have no non-volatile place to store things if you do brownout. If that changed perhaps it would be less an issue.