Safe Method for Purposeful Brown-out

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Safe Method for Purposeful Brown-out

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28-10-2016, 13:23

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Re: Safe Method for Purposeful Brown-out

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Another oddball way to to this if you don't need too many amps for your test is to set up a motor controller (controlled by an arduino or separate RIO) to provide voltage for the the cRIO. Just don't try to drive it backwards...

I don't know how the RoboRIO will respond to a pulsed output like that of a speed controller, and I'm not sure I want to know.

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