Wiring Guide

SWYFT CANnect products provide the capability to pass two CAN buses and power over traditional ethernet cabling, allowing for reduced robot wiring!

There are currently two CANnect products available: SWYFT Inject and SWYFT Direct. These products were co-designed to simplify Swerve drivetrain wiring, but they can be used anywhere on the robot where you would want both CAN and power.

CANnect System Wiring Guide

CAN Wiring Guidelines

Since CANnect incorporates CAN bus wiring, there are some guidelines that should be followed carefully to ensure bus integrity.

CAN 2.0 and CAN FD buses can both be used with CANnect.

  • The CAN bus should be terminated with 120 Ohm resistors on the most extreme points of the bus

  • Branch / Stub lengths should be kept < 12 inches, ideally shorter.

  • The overall CAN bus length should be kept to a minimum; < 40 / 10 meters (2.0 / FD, respectively)

While these guidelines are important for both CAN 2.0 and CAN FD technologies, CAN FD is much more fickle, due to significantly higher bitrates.

CANnect products support daisy chain topology between themselves, through the ethernet cabling, but any devices connected to the CAN bus through an CANnect device is a stub / branch on the bus.

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