Consolidating PWM's to one serial cable

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Originally Posted by GMAdan

The CAT5 does sound like an interesting solution. Only problem i see with that is that the CAT5 wire to my memory ( i could be wrong) only has 8 pins. So that would make for a weird distribution of wiring.
Unless I put 4 victors per CAT5 wire (if i remove the ground) and then have a CAT5 wire just for grounding purposes, which may workout that I can still give each victor its own ground.
Thank you for the idea. Sorry i was kinda thinking out loud there.

No, your absolutely right. The CAT5 does have just that many connectors and would definitely make for wierd distribution... also CAT5 normally is single core and because of that it doesnt have a long mechanical life when it comes to bending/vibration, and running a seperate wire for grounding does introduce, again, the possibility for wiring in more noise (every wire is afterall an antenna weather we want it to be or not ).

So, if I were you, I'd stick with the DB9. Its a great solution..... think you might see some nifty connection boxes on 1024's robot next year...

-q