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Unread 15-01-2011, 12:52
CelestialVortex CelestialVortex is offline
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Led Tape Control

Our team has the idea of putting 12 volt LED strip lights on our robot to signal what kind of game piece we'd like the feeders to give us, but we do not know how to control them.

These lights have one 12V power supply, then 3 ground pins for Red, Green, and Blue. They are meant to be controlled by PWM.

Ideally, we would use the outputs of the digital sidecar to control the PWM, but rule <R62> states that custom circuits can only be connected to certain things, none of which could be an output for PWM. However, if you read the rule, it mentions that "sensor inputs, custom circuits..." can only be connected to those, so we were wondering if the circuits weren't inputs if they could be used.