Jaguars failing

[EricVanWyk]

FACT: The number of failed Jaguars is higher than what TI has reported. This is not attributable to malice; they simply are not psychic. I am at a loss as to why any team would choose to not tell LM/TI of a failure; why not get a free replacement?

FACT: The grey Jaguar has/had(?) a failure mode that silently disables one direction of motor control.

Jaguar failures that include emitting smoke are user induced.

Please note that clustered failures are much more likely to be indicative of the user than of the design. I did a lot of tech support last season, and almost all of the cases of multiple failures were user error. Most of these cases also featured the fabled line of "I've been doing FIRST for X years, of course I didn't read the documentation!" Actual Example:

My analog breakout and all my Jaguars blew at the same time. These things are crap.

Edit : The quote came from someone who plugged the battery in backwards.