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Parallax has a different incompatible type of PWM

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Originally posted by GhettoTech
Best explaination of what PWM outputs are, and how they work is in the Basic Stamp Manual (on pages 249 to 252 in the pdf version and 247 to 250 in the tangible version)
Parallax generates a series of pulses of random width over some time period that gives an average voltage which is governed by the number you feed in.

The PWM output feeding Victors is one variable width pulse, approximateley 0.5 ms + (#/254) * 1 ms in width, with a repetition rate around 16 ms (the times are not far off, they'll do for illustration).