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Re: HELP with TANK DRIVE PROGRAMMING

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
The controllers limit the voltage (or current?), thereby limiting the torque outputs of the motors.
Neither... the controllers pulse a voltage (12v in our case). http://homepages.which.net/~paul.hil...llersBody.html Has a little more info.

Edit: Thinking more on it. JesseK is "correct" as far as I can tell. Because of the pulsing of the output you are limiting the amount of current which limits the amount of torque. He is correct but I wanted to make sure there was no confusion about how an ESC worked.
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