Snow blower motor on motor controller

Technical Motors
1

Hi I was wondering if you can attach a snow blower motor to a motor controller instead of a spike relay?
Thanks

2

Yes, up to two per controller. See R42.

3

I know we are allowed to but ours is not working. We ran a cim off the controller and it worked fine, but when we swapped it with the snowblower motor it stopped. The software hasnt changed and the voltage output is the same. Any ideas?

4

Which controller are you using?

5

we have tried both victor and talon and got the same result

6

Er, are you sure that the problem isn’t the snowblower motor then?

7

We have tried sending 12, 7.5 and 5V all directly to the motor and it works fine.

8

Have you put a meter on the controller motor terminals before or while the snowblower motor is connected?

9

Yes we have put meters on the controllers and are getting the same output before and after. We were thinking it was in the code, but nothing changes in the code from the cim to the snow blower motor? Has anyone actually gotten it to work? All i have found online is many complaints about the motor.

10

Thanks for all your help! we got it to work on the jaguar.

11

For those folks wondering about Talon SRX and the snow blower motor, we hooked a SB motor up to a Talon SRX last night. We were using CAN bus control but in %voltage mode. The code was in C++. We had Anderson power poles on all of the current carrying connections. When using the Talon SRX demo code, everything worked like a champ. Both forward and backwards through the Talon SRX with no perceivable lag, stutter or any other noticable issues. The Talon was at CAN ID 2, and the PDP was at ID 0. The RoboRIO was running V23 with the F01 firmware.

HTH,

Mike