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Re: SD540 Motor Controller

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Originally Posted by philso View Post
It does look like one would plug a standard 3-pin connector onto 3 of the 16 pins then plug a 2-pin connector onto 2 of the other pins for limit switches. This is a somewhat dangerous way to do it since if the PWM cable is plugged onto the wrong pins, either the motor controller, the robot controller or both may be damaged. Now I know what aldaeron was referring to when he wrote "It is very easy to plug the PWM into the limit switch pins or vice versa."
That's my point though, the average team that uses PWMs is not going to go out and buy a bunch of these 16 pin connectors (which also adds to the cost of each controller), strip apart the ribbon cables, and splice each one with a 3-pin and 2 2-pin PWM cables, they're going to just plug a standard PWM cable into it, which seems like a terrible idea with this connector.

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Originally Posted by mindsensors.com View Post
Check out this video of the SD540 in action!!
What's with that shaking/noise in the bot at the beginning of the video? It goes away at about the 14 second mark, and then comes back again at ~24 seconds.

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