Mixing Jaguars and Victors

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Originally Posted by Rob Stehlik

the way things are done in FIRST is far from ideal. In industry, you would typically see a single motor sized large enough to handle the load.

If you use 2 Jags with CAN, you can balance the load by balancing the current. You could close the loop on speed for motor#1 and close the loop on current for motor#2 (to make motor#2 match motor#1 current). With some filters and careful tuning I'm guessing this could be made to work well.



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