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Re: TI and future Jaguars

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Therefore I believe one could make a Vic shaped Jag on steroids that would serve the 10A-150A market...below $100.
That's what we want! At a high level, all an FRC team wants is an improvement on the Jaguar, and the biggest complaints are the physical size and [apparent] current limit.

So, given the following two statements:

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[TI has] some Jaguars in stock, but they didn't think it was enough to carry FIRST through the next season.
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In a straight up...hard and fast...quantity manufacturing situation the modular idea adds cost. There's probably no way we can make a modular speed control like this that will be on the cheap end of the R/C car spectrum.
...it seems to me that we need to find the most direct (fastest) path to a Jaguar replacement. If not, the teams that have stocked up on Jaguars will have an unfair advantage over others (especially rookie teams).

On a side note: Dean, was this a typo?
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On FIRSTs requirement of power control – why could that just be done by specifying the resettable fuse values for each type of motor? Then the judges would check that at inspection time.
I think you meant, "why couldn't that just be done..."
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