Impact and Capability of Motor Brakes?

[Argon27]

Originally Posted by RyanCahoon

One easy thing to make sure of as well is that your Jaguars are in brake mode rather than coast. This won't keep your robot from rolling down the bridge if it's tilted, but it may help your robot from rolling around so much when the bridge is coming up to level. Basically it will resist uncommanded motor movement somewhat (especially short-duration disturbances), but not prevent it.

I talked to the drive team about this and they prefer it on coast.Now we are looking at switching to CAN in future years so we can change that on the fly. We also had some power problems if the drive motors short to brake while our flinger is on (powered by 3 BaneBots 550's) we blow some breakers and eventually lose communication. We fixed most of the problem when we had two of the flinger motors powered by Spikes by switching to Victors(which were out of our budget at the time), but we haven't tested the Jag brakes with our changes.