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Re: Can Victors work as ESCs without all of the other electronic components?

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Originally Posted by karlcswanson View Post
if the duty cycle(i think that is what it is called) is below 50%, the motor will go backwards.
Are you sure about that? If you actually read the Victor 884 data sheet, it definitely sounds like you're supposed to send a 1-2ms pulse with a frequency no greater than 120Hz. A 2ms pulse should be full forward, even though that's substantially less than 50% duty.
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Originally Posted by VEN View Post
Is it as easy as buying one of those circuits, attacing a pot to it, on the other end the pwm and to the victor?
It's not quite that easy. You'll need a couple of capacitors and resistors, I'm sure. Search around for 555 circuits, or pick up a copy of Forest Mims' timers and op-amps notebook.
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