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Originally Posted by Ether
Actually, it just says the motor controllers on CAN are disabled. It doesn't give any details at all how that is implemented.
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I know that in the old system, in the Firmware for the jaguars, if it did not recieve a new packet for 100ms, it would shut itself off.
Also, I have heard that the PWM's don't just turn off, they actually all get set to 0 by the FPGA. I would suspect something similar happens on the CAN bus as well. It probably just sends a 0 to all motors on the bus. Easy to implement and makes sense.
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