Jaguars failing

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Tom,
The direction failures are attributable to one of the power FET gate drivers shorting. I don't remember if the cause of the failures was ever found or reported.

Al,

I stated that because there was some discussion previously regarding the static. I wasn't sure if it had been on the beta test boards or not, but the summarization was that static charge directly applied to the exposed terminals could create issues in the jags. I couldn't remember who said it (fortunately someone spoke up here).

We'll be using Jag's again this year on our practice robot. I'm interested in seeing how they behave. We used them last year on our sparring-partner in the drive train and never experienced any issues with, though I know that anecdotal evidence is really of no help in determining their reliability.

Tom