can i connect a falcon 500 to an external talon?
No (it’s not legal per R505, and not possible to do with Falcons)
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For power sure, but it won’t do anything except give you variable power. It’s not useful at all.
Now to control, the CAN wires can be used with a PWM servo controller.
Edit: you can’t do these things legally, and the PWM servo controller is only for testing, although the RIO does have PWM control so you could use that I think.
No, because the encoder and hall effect sensors needed to drive the brushless motor are calibrated as part of the assembly process and reliant on being directly located where they are near the motor itself. An external Talon would not know the position of the poles on the Falcon and would present with errors when you try to run it.
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our problem is one of our canbus wires has disconnected from its base inside the motor, so we currently don’t know what to do
Your best bet is probably to contact CTRE and see what they say. Otherwise, you’re likely down a motor.
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If you have one green wire and one yellow that are good, you should stillbe able to use it.
i sent them a mail and waiting for them to answer
how?
CAN is a chain, so while it does come originally with two seperate pigtails, both yellow wires and both green wires go back to the same contact points internally. You could add a Y connector onto the remaining yellow and green wires and treat it like you would the original seperate wires. The TalonFX wouldn’t know the difference.
Edit: for more information as well you could do a Star Topology if all of them only had a single pair and it would still work. A star also would still function even if one node was missing or faulty. The default way many teams wire their CAN bus is device to device. If one part of that chain fails it all fails. Of course you’d need a hub for this.
Mindsensors has a good topology guide
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What is a Flacon 500?
a small stoppered bottle, especially one for perfume
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I think we should also clarify, do you mean hooking up a Falcon 500 with it’s integrated TalonFX up to another motor controller like a Talon SRX? If so then no that will fry the Falcon 500, if you mean removing the integrated Talon FX from the Falcon 500 and hooking it up to another Talon FX/SRX then no that is not legal/advisable/possible depending on the configuration we’re talking about.
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