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Re: Digital inputs in autonomous mode?

Because the competition port pins are hooked directly up to the PIC inside, IFI recommends (in one of their documents, forget which) that instead of hooking your wires directly to the port, you should insert a resistor on one leg. Sounds like good advice to me...
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