Jaguars

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We used Victors last year, and kept cooking them, (because our motors kept shorting out, damaging their FETs. We haven't been having those problems anymore, because our shooter is disabled so we barely use it. Victors, themselves, are quite nice. They were lightweight last year, compared to jaguars, and they work nicely. I do not have too much experience with Jaguars, but it seems though the feature set is quite great. The CAN interface is nice, along with the PWM interface. These can be networked through an RS232 interface too! There are a lot more features that I won't list, but here's the manual: http://content.vexrobotics.com/docs/...e_20130215.pdf. As mentioned before, a big problem in these motor controllers is their maximum continuous current. In the product page (http://www.vexrobotics.com/217-3367.html), here is the specs table:

Never Limit Progressive Limit Immediate Limit
Pre v107 40A 50A 60A
v107 40A 50A 92A


Here are the Talon specs:
Page: http://www.andymark.com/Talon-p/am-2505.htm

Input voltage: 6-28 VDC
Continuous current: 60 A (above 40A continuous we recommend adding this fan)
Peak current: 100 A
Input PWM signal: 0.9-2 ms @ 333 Hz
Input resolution: 10-bit (1024 steps)
Output resolution: 10-bit (1024 steps)
Output switching frequency: 15 kHz
Talon SR: Synchronous sign-magnitude rectification
Smart LED, blinks proportional to throttle, now with obvious change from 99% throttle to 100%
Simple calibration
User selectable brake/coast
4% neutral dead band
Linear throttle response

I hope this helped. This is a comparison between Talons and Jaguars.