Thread: Too many PWM's shorting out power?
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Re: Too many PWM's shorting out power?
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Originally Posted by WizenedEE View Post
Is your digital sidecar powered by wires coming from the PD board? ie, are the BAT, 5V, and 6V LEDs on? I've heard that could make one or two PWMs work but not all of them. That doesn't theoretically make much sense, since the sidecar circuitry is mostly pass through for PWM, but hey.
The reason it works is because the DS leeches power from the cRIO, which is generally enough to run a few of the outputs, but not all.
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