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Re: Legality - Splitting PWM cables for servo motors

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Originally Posted by 1075guy View Post
I gotta admit I'm curious as to what you could possibly be doing that would require 20 PWMs... we've never had more than 16 available to us up to this year, and even then I don't think my team's ever used more than 10 and that was a complex robot.
I'm wondering the same thing. If I counted right, there are 15 motors available for use. Even if you power all 15 through speed controllers you would still need to be adding 6 or more servos to run out of PWM ports. That is one heck of a complex bot to have that many moving parts.
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