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Thomson Reuters: Look Past Disappointing FY2025 Prospects

Why didn’t the Phillies fire Rob Thomson? Well, start by listing all of the reasons they weren’t at their best against the Dodgers. Their highest-paid pitcher (Zack Wheeler), the presumptive Game 1 starter for the National League Division Series, was out for the season with a blood clot. Meanwhile, their highest-paid active starting pitcher (Aaron Nola) threw two innings of Game 4 after a…

The Thomson Electrac HD is a rugged, high-torque linear actuator built for industrial and mobile applications, and one of its standout capabilities is control via CAN Bus using SAE J1939. Rather than requiring a full protocol stack as with CANopen, the actuator accepts relatively simple J1939 message frames, allowing low-overhead control of position and speed directly from embedded systems. Motion is driven through pulse-width modulation (PWM), though the actuator will not respond below approximately a 20 percent duty cycle and operates in discrete speed increments of about 5 percent above that threshold. The actual stroke length is slightly shorter than the nominal specification, losing around 10 millimeters at each end, so designers are advised to select a longer actuator or adjust endpoint margins accordingly. For systems with multiple actuators, it is important to manage CAN bus traffic and power carefully, often by isolating each actuator on its own CAN port to maintain deterministic communication and prevent network congestion.