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THE PROGRAMINATOR
AKA: Travis
FRC #0510 (Hawaii 5-1-0)
Team Role: Tactician
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Richmond
Posts: 38
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Safe solution Powering IR Board by PWM

OH! well we found out that we would have to plug in the pwm after we turn the robot on. (team update 10)

problem:
the pwms are covered with lexan for protection.

we could drill a hole and feed it through everytime we turn the robot on and off, but some ignorant someone may be unaware that they just fried the board by turning the robot of befor removing some random pwm wire...

SO.... i'm ganna try this: a timed delay relay that turns on a few seconds after the robot turns on. any ideas?

***NOTE***
to send 5 volts to the red wire of a relay, you use the relay1_rev instead of the relay1_fwd
(fwd controls the white wire)
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