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            | Subject: 
 | Pulse outputs?? 
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            | Newsgroups: 
 | lugnet.robotics.handyboard 
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            | Date: 
 | Fri, 11 Jul 1997 20:47:12 GMT 
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            | Original-From: 
 | Bruce Moore <bamoore@%nomorespam%bloomington.in.us> 
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 |  | I need help on understanding the motor controller circuit. 
 Looking at the source in the lib_hb librariy it looks like different
 pulse trains are sent out to increase the average output voltage by
 poking increasing values of 256 into the rught locations, 0x22
 through 0x25.  Its easy enough to test this out but it doesn't
 seem to work that way.  As the value increase from 0
 to 255 the average outpur voltage (just monitoring it with a
 voltmeter) ramps up, drops back down, ramps back up, etc.  Lowest
 value I get is 1.8 volts, highes is around 9 volts.
 
 I know I'm missing something here.  Probably the basic understanding
 of what's going on.
 
 What I'm trying to do is output an average  voltage of 0 to 5 volts to control
 an astroflight solid state speed controller.  This one unses 0 to 5
 volts input to varry the output by running a 5 volt signal through a
 5K pot.  If anyone has a bette way to do it with the HB I'd love to
 here it
 
 Thanks
 
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