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Re: 2015 Beta Testing - The Components are Here.

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Originally Posted by FrankJ View Post
While it needs to be tested, you are not really driving any power over the signal line of the PWM to the motor controllers. It is just a signal.
It's just a signal, but the motor controller inputs do not have infinite impedance. They do suck some power from the signal (to light the LED in the photocoupler).

Have any of the beta teams tried driving three of the new motor controllers with one PWM signal? (three CIM gearbox).


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