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Re: Using an Non First Microcontroller with Victor 884 Motor Controller

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Originally Posted by miker4004 View Post
refresh rate or period is 50hz
this from apalrd:
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The current PWM setup in WPIlib (at least in LabVIEW) is a PWM output with a 5s period and a 'period multiplier' of 1,2 or 4. It's enumerated, so 1x, 2x, and 4x correspond to 0,1,2 respectively (I don't think you can add more multipliers if you want).

The Jaguars use a period multiplier of 1, for a 5ms period. The Victors use 2, for a 10ms period. Servos use 4, for a 20ms period, and raw PWM channels can use whatever they want (of the three choices)