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Re: New Talon Speed Controller

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Originally Posted by Mike Copioli View Post
This was a typo in the User Manual. The actual refresh rate is 333Hz or (3 ms). The input capture is driven by an interrupt so as long as there is some space between the edges of the input pulse, the output will update correctly.
If your pulse spacing is 3 ms or greater you should have no problem.
All of our testing over the last 2 weeks has been at a refresh rate of 242Hz, as I was too lazy to reconfigure the PIC we're using for pulse generation.

I hope the Talon gets FRC approval. So far, this thing is bulletproof.