Talons, Jaguars and Victors - where do you stand?

[MikeE]

Originally Posted by apalrd

Edit: I see absolutely no reasons to use a Jaguar in FRC. The reliability history is poor (in my time on 33 we've blown ~3x more Jaguars than Victors, yet used ~6x more Victors on robots), although the changes by IFI should help that, the CAN implementation is poor (synchronous blocking) and increases single point failures, and they're freaking huge.

(My emphasis)

If you are careful about avoiding metal shavings raining down on the Jags, I'm not sure they are any less reliable than some lots of Digital Sidecars.
The DSC is also a single point of failure and disables all PWM controlled motors, whereas with a daisy chained CAN bus you may have several motors operational before the cabling failure point.

However I don't argue with your other points about size & CAN blocking implementation.