MicroControllers at competitions

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MicroControllers at competitions

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12-12-2013, 16:37

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Re: MicroControllers at competitions

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I've used the current monitoring in Jags to diagnose binding in the drivetrain (old robot had picked up some gunk and locked up one side of the drive) as well as to identify that we were initially over geared this year. It's useful data to have for debugging.

Was there anything you couldn't measure with a multimeter? A clamp on ammeter costs $60. The shunt resistor costs over $100.

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