Thread: Victor turning on and off under load, with non-IFI microcontroller
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Re: Victor turning on and off under load, with non-IFI microcontroller
The two motors are a big CIM under a fairly small load, and a window motor under no-load. Both exhibit the same behavior, even with a bigger battery. I also have the microcontroller running under external power, so that shouldn't be a problem. It usually takes 3-5 seconds to reset anyways, so that wouldn't do it. Will the victor display red and green under any circumstances that don't mean it's receiving proper PWM signal? I guess that it would exhibit this behavior if we really turning the victor on and off really fast, instead of giving it a constant signal, but I trust the function generator...


I'm going to see if I can control another Victor in a working setup with this, but I don't see how four victors could go bad at once :-\.
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