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Re: Some electrical questions

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Originally Posted by whytheheckme View Post
Unless the goal was just on/off/backward, in which case you could use a Digital output. I'm pretty sure there's some kind of power safety, like on the IFI RC, to prevent you from drawing too much current (i.e. imagine a short.)

Jacob

Nope, I need fine control over the motor speed. PWM is the only way I know to do this, there's no such thing as an analog OUT is there? That would be kind of cool.


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