New Talon SRX and CAN with the 2015 Control System

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

A dead device should act just like a disconnected device. It won't have any affect on the rest of the CAN bus. While a live but badly misbehaving device does have the electrical ability to jam the bus with spurious signals, such a failure is extremely unlikely.

It seems to me that a short between the two wires will be the most likely failure mode in the new system. We have diagnostics that report roboRIO's CAN TX overrun which should catch long to intermittent shorts.

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Changing from the Jaguar's RJ12 connectors to the Weidmuller terminals is going to reduce cable and wiring issues significantly.

Of course the Talon SRX has no Weidmuller connector, so Talon to Talon will just be twisted or soldered or some custom connector. would be good if there were a Weidmuller block created that allowed a bunch of them to be all connected.