pic: Team 701's Electronics

[Steven Sigley]

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[scottydoh]

Am I missing something , or have you guys left out your main breaker? It looks like the Anderson connector for the battery goes right into the power distribution board...

[keehun]

Originally Posted by scottydoh

Am I missing something , or have you guys left out your main breaker? It looks like the Anderson connector for the battery goes right into the power distribution board...

WOW yeah that could be a serious issue with the inspectors

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Pretty! You gotta give em that.

[sgreco]

The breaker may have fit more conveniently somewhere else, so they may just be plugging it in to the plug on the power distribution board. Also, I doubt this is the entirety of their electronics, I may be wrong, but I bet their using more than just two motor controllers.

[dodar]

the rest are underneath

[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by dodar

the rest are underneath

Actually It doesn't look like the breaker is attached to the anderson connector on this board. Picture seems pretty clear about it.

[dodar]

i meant the rest of the jags

[gallo26]

They probably have it connected separatly on another part of their robot. Just like they have the quick disconnect for the motors, they have the same for the on off switch. Looks like its to make sure thay can easily remove the board, yet keep the main breaker in a place that's easily accesible.

[Foster]

Wow!!! Two things:

1) That's a really amazing board, love the two level design, love how everything is mounted together with minimal spacing but little chance for shorts. I like how there are Anderson connectors to allow the entire board to be dismounted and moved. I'd like to see the far side power connectors to see how they are arranged.

2) I'm surprised how the first batch of responses were negative. From the picture and the text above and below you can tell they thought things through, unlikely they would "forget" the breaker.

Cool board team, I hope you win an award for it.

[Steven Sigley]

Originally Posted by gallo26

They probably have it connected separatly on another part of their robot. Just like they have the quick disconnect for the motors, they have the same for the on off switch. Looks like its to make sure thay can easily remove the board, yet keep the main breaker in a place that's easily accesible.

Exactly, the on switch stays on the robot while the board can come out if work needs done. The other nice thing is all of those components are mounted on surgical tubing to help absorb some of the impact if we don't go over a bump as smoothly as we'd like.

[MWB]

so it looks like you are using no pneumatics. and did you know that you can make a ribbon cable for your digital sidecar so you dont have to have that huge thing coming out of your board. also are you not using pwm, but using a rj11 jack, and how does that work?

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by MWB

...also are you not using pwm, but using a rj11 jack, and how does that work?

They are using the CAN bus. The first black jaguar is connected to the cRio via RS232 (serial), and the rest are chained to it via CAN.

[viperred396]

Woah thats nice and small i like it!!! i had to do a double take you you said 10 jaguars

[keericks]

Using CAN sure does clean things up a ton! We're still using PWM this year, making the board more unruly to keep nice. Nice job 701.