New Talon SRX and CAN with the 2015 Control System

[Jon Stratis]

To answer your questions in order...

- I don't think anyone except CTRE has seen the new Talon's yet. I *think* Beta teams are going to get them at some point (we have the new Victors already), but until teams can put them through their paces you won't have much information.
- Define "noticeable". The control system does have timing expectations for the CAN bus, and I bet if you search for "CAN Timeout Exception" you'll find some more information on CD for it. As CAN bus is implemented through daisy-chaining one module to the next, you need to be aware of total bus length and actively work to keep that to a minimum. Keep all the components close to each other any you won't have a problem... spread them out all over the robot so your bus is a meter+ long and you could run into issues.
- With it being a whole new control system, I'm willing to bet that yes, there will be other issues this year. Given the work testing it (by the control system team and the alpha/beta testers), i don't expect any issues that do crop up to be show-stopping.