[FRC Blog] 2015 Control System and Kit of Parts Survey

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by magnets

I charge my pneumatics with a relay that is many years old. I buy a single $34.95 relay for shifting. I would not like to purchase $180 worth of pneumatics boards, instead, I would like to purchase 1 new spike relay for use on the competition robot, and use an older relay for our practice robot. That is spending 5 times as much money to accomplish the same task. In my personal opinion, providing CAN functionality to the pneumatics board is too complicated.

Then use a spike relay off one of the relay ports. If you feel you need more than 4 spikes, some of the general purpose digital i/o can be set up to run relays (probably).

[magnets]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Then use a spike relay off one of the relay ports. If you feel you need more than 4 spikes, some of the general purpose digital i/o can be set up to run relays (probably).

I was told at St. Louis that we would not be able to use the normal I/O for the relays. They did say that the setup they had there was not the final one, so the new one might be able to do that.