Posted by Anton Abaya at 1/23/2001 11:35 AM EST
Coach on team #419, Rambots, from UMass Boston / BC High and NONE AT THE MOMENT!

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In Reply to: Loss of signal in PWM cables.
Posted by Michael on 1/23/2001 10:36 AM EST:
: Hey y'all . . .
: This is my first post to this forum, but I've got a question that I haven't really been able to find an answer for.
: Has anyone suffered any problems with their PWM cables with respect to signal loss? We've (We being team #271) got to run a PWM cable to a servo at the end of a long arm, and we'll need some ridiculous amount of cable. . .something like 12'. Being that the wire is so small in diameter, I was worried about internal resistance and all, and wondering if the signal would get that far.
: Any advice?
wow...that's far. I cannot really say we've tried it ourselves, but why dont you try it? just hook up a motor to the end of a looong pwm cable. see what happens

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post back the results

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-anton