Thread: Underglow LED Control using WPI_DigitalOutputGeneratePWM.vi
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Re: Underglow LED Control using WPI_DigitalOutputGeneratePWM.vi
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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
servo style PWM gives you a pulse width between 1.67 and 2.33 ms, repeated every 5-20ms. You have a very limited range of duty cycles and frequencies. It's suitable for driving a servo or a speed controller, but not much else.

The digital output PWM lets you set a duty cycle between 0-100% and a frequency from 0.6hz to 19khz.
Wouldn't that be 0.67 ms and 2.33 ms? Or am I just getting sleepy?
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