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Re: NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
As the device runs on CAN, I would assume you can utilize more than one of the devices on the robot at a time. From what I've seen inspecting, a majority of teams don't need more than 4 double solenoids. Since you have to draw the line somewhere (4, 8, 20, whatever), why not keep the whole thing as small as possible while making it all most teams need? The teams that need more will get more by adding more boards.
What Jon said +1.

Also, teams can use single acting Solenoids and reduce the number of outputs needed. As long as they are comfortable with having a default state of their cylinder, that will actuate at the end of the match or loss of comms.

The CTRE device is replacing the current solenoid module that has 8 outputs, but allows for easier (and less weight) expansion of more outputs.

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