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

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
The Jaguar datasheet says 5.0125 ms minimum period.
I noticed while working with the low-level FPGA interface in LabVIEW that the DIO loop on the FPGA basically cycles every 5.05ms. In this time, it generates a pulse for every PWM that isn't being skipped (because it skips 5.05ms iterations to get 10.1ms or 20.2ms pulse periods) and it shifts out all of the relay outputs at that same interval.

I wondered why it was 5.05 and not 5.00ms, this must be why...
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