New Products - September 2021 (VEX EXP)

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@Bob_Mimlitch_III

We have always had ESD protection in Smart Ports.

@Bob_Mimlitch_III Considering the GDC has once again ruled the community’s solution to this problem (BLRS’s ESD protection boards) as illegal, I think a response to @Andrew_Strauss’ post is in order. I have linked it below:

New Products - September 2021 (VEX EXP)

I’m sure there are many talented engineers working on the V5 system and that a lot of thought and care has been put into designing it, but that doesn’t mean people, and more over companies don’t sometimes make mistakes. The RS-485 transceivers in the V5 (by far the part most commonly killed by ESD) do contain some ESD protection built in, however, only to a fairly limited capacity. The datasheet for the part in question states at the bottom of page 20 that, “Although the SN65HVD178x family is …

Thank you.