VictorSP brake mode for PWM signal that aren't neutral

I am currently working on a project that uses 3 VictorSP motor controllers controlled by an Arduino. In the documentation (screen shot below), it says that neutral PWM signal is applied, the motors resist rotation. In my case, that would be 90. If I instead send the motor controller a PWM signal close to neutral, say, 91 or 92, (approximately equivalent to motorController.set(0.01)), will break mode still short the motor leads and cause the breaking effect?

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There is a small center deadband in terms of PWM timing. I’m not sure if it’s documented in the datasheet, but for the Victor SP, WPILib uses 1.48 ms to 1.52 ms (vs the “true” center of 1.5 ms and full range of 0.997 ms to 2.004 ms) as the deadband.

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There is a “deadband” where the coast/brake takes effect. On the Victor SP, this deadband is fixed at 4%. On the SPX, it is programmable don to 0.1% via the Phoenix tuner.

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