Setting Falcon 500 for Field Oriented Control (FOC)

[RoboPirate]

Saw the Falcons can run in FOC mode with a simple software change. How would we do that?

Thanks

[zucker42]

Introducing: The Falcon 500, Powered by Talon FX

This is not true. The hardware supports it, however it will not be available out of the box. This is a feature that will be made available later as a firmware upgrade. All the performance data posted to date uses the default commutation method (trapezoidal). When CTRE releases the FOC update, we plan on releasing additional testing that shows performance with FOC and compares between both methods. Sorry for the confusion.