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Figure 6.16 The AR8000 50% throttle channel output.
I also captured the waveforms at the throttle 50% setting, which was set using the
marked midpoint of the throttle control. Figure 6.16 shows a pulse width of 1.50 ms and
22-ms period.
The corresponding power pulses for the 50% setting are shown in Figure 6.17. Notice
that it is considerably noisier than the 100% power waveform. I am not sure why this is the
case, but it may be due in part to a longer cycle time of 800 microseconds (µsec) versus
700 µsec for the 100% power setting.
Figure 6.17 ESC motor waveform at 50% power.
