Jaguar Meltdown - Chief Delphi

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04-04-2010, 17:04

Joe Ross

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Re: Jaguar Meltdown

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Originally Posted by boomergeek

I'm relatively new to FIRST (my second year). And I was kind of surprised that neither the speed controllers themselves nor the standard software for driving the speed controllers had sufficient defensive measures for preventing a full speed motors in one direction (with the momentum of a robot traveling 10 fps) being instantaneously subjected to full voltage in the reverse direction.

While not enabled by default, when using CAN you can set a voltage ramp rate.

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