CAN to PWM converter?

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by asid61

Forgive me, but I don't know enough about CAN to see where $20 to $30 came from. I was looking up general-purpose CAN controllers and microcontrollers and found options in the $1-3 range, and PCBs should only cost $1-2 tops. What would drive up the cost?



That's pretty fair. But if you could do it for cheap or wanted to try out CAN in general, a cheap converter would be useful. Plus, it would be easy to go from converter to SRX without changing much code.

Not all of the profit in the per item reference frame goes to the overall business profit... Most of it is eaten up by salaries of engineers, warehouse, quality control, support etc...

I know nothing about the COTS FRC Market, but I wouldn't be surprised if the per item cost on a Talon SRX is in the $20-40 range.They need to sell it at $90 to cover all the overhead and still make a profit.