Early Bird Control System

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

I'll be very interested to see how the new fuseblock does under high current loads... PC boards have amazed me in the past with how much current traces can handle, but... I just don't know. 4 cims running at max fuse current. That can happen for a few moments as you're accelerating... I'll be interested to see if the voltage supply to the motors drops a rediculous amount. I mean, that's 160A trying to push through a PC board... the same thing we use a giant block of gold plated copper to do now. Just seems like either we're WAY overdoing it with the current maxi block, or the PC board will be overwhelmed... anyone care to offer their opinion on this?

I have not heard any of the beta teams having any problems with the PD board. In our case, the voltage drop seems no worse then the old system. I know FIRST did current measurements of real robots during real matches to make sure everything was designed to handle the real loads.

Originally Posted by Qbranch

I can hardly wait for us to get ours... I so want to see how much of the vision tools suite they gave teams.

You don't have to wait to start reading. http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-2453#cf