Mindsenors CAN Splitter

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by ollien

Hm. I'm curious as to why you didn't run into reflection issues like others have been suggesting (in both this thread and the other). How long were your wire runs?

All of the Talons we used (about 10 total) were more or less their uncut stock length (with the exception of two which had ~6" extensions soldered on). All other CAN devices (PCM, Rio, PDP, etc.) were connected with CAN wires between 6"-12" in length. We also only used one set of wires from each CAN device (the second set from the Talons were bundled up with zip ties, kept as spares in case the main set broke).

The setup used the standard CAN termination with the roboRio and the PDP with no additional resistors added.
All CAN devices were wired to a pair of grounding bars (one for each color wire) we ordered from McMaster and connected using ring terminals. Also, if I remember correctly, the total bus useage was around 60% (though that may have changed as programmers added features).