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Re: New Gear Tooth Sensor- Connection

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Originally Posted by JJMax7
My team has decided to use the gear tooth sensors this year. We installed the new ones into the transmission plates, but I don't know where to plug in the PWM. There are two sets of holes marked like a PWM (Black, Red, and White) Are these where we plug in the PWMs? If so which set, or do we use both? And if not how do we connect the sensors to the Robot Controller?

Thanks in advance for the help.
You want to run them into one of the first 6 digital IO ports, so that you can use them as interrupts. Search for some posts by Kevin Watson and Brad Miller about the timing issues with trying to determine direction.

You will likely want to install two 3 posistion 0.100" headers (female if you are going to use standard IFI PWM cables, male is likely better if you are making your own cables, as it will likely create a more reliable connection) onto the boards, or you can also solder wires directly to them. You will need to modify a pwm cable to feed the 12V signal to it, which I believe by the rules will have to come off its own 20A circuit breaker and be considered a "custom circuit". Please correct me if I am wrong.
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