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Who
Engineer: Meghan Dang
Manager: Daniel Puratich
Why
we want to space ESCs out, have a higher datarate, and less harness complexiy
CAN supported ESCs exist but more expensive and not what we have alr, we like what we have right now
DSHOT is already a digital protcol that’s busable
single ended
prone to ground loops and common mode SI
100mil hdrs into pixhawk and from ESC
What
board solders onto the ESCs both DSHOT data pins that has a JST CAN connector to pixhawk
the firmware and hardware will not implement an ESC, we will continue to rely on COTS for this assuming the COTS solution features a standard DSHOT 100mil pitch connection (as the APD ESCs we have right now do)
firmware wise this is a CAN to bidirectional DSHOT adapter.
How:
small STM and a CAN transciever, may require a little LDO for power, see below for design procedure
When
Starting Early June 2024
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