Canbus pros and cons

[Joe Ross]

What pros and cons have you already found from your own research?

[billbo911]

One indirect advantage of using CAN is that you can take advantage of the intelegence built into the Jaguars. For instance, you can set up the Jag to perform the PID control of a system rather than having the cRio manage that process. That frees up the cRio to do the Jag can't do, things like image processing.!

[Doug G]

We found that it made the wiring much simpler and neater. Just be sure to get a good crimper, extra ends, and absolutely test every wire made both physically and electrically.

A down side is if one of your wires fail, the whole bus fails.

Here's our e-board from 2010. 8 Jags on a two sided lexan panel. Just plug it in and go. Something we are considering for this year is maybe adding some strain relief to the connections as a precaution. Here's a better pic..

[diviney]

Originally Posted by Doug G

Here's our e-board from 2010. 8 Jags on a two sided lexan panel. Just plug it in and go. Something we are considering for this year is maybe adding some strain relief to the connections as a precaution.

Nice board, but how did you pass inspection without a main 120A breaker (elsewhere on the robot with a 2nd Anderson connector to the e-board I hope?)

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by diviney

Nice board, but how did you pass inspection without a main 120A breaker (elsewhere on the robot with a 2nd Anderson connector to the e-board I hope?)

You got it right! We had the main breaker mounted on the robot and connected with Anderson connectors . We also had a motor connecter bus which you can barely make out in the pic. Just plug in motor connection and sensors and the main connector and we were done.