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Old 11-06-2009, 01:59 PM
mpolli mpolli is offline
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Originally Posted by sixto View Post
Question - what voltage will S see if CW has 2V, CT has 5V and CCW has 7V? Assume S is 20% of the distance between CT and CCW and resistance is linear across the sweep range.
Depends on the source impedance from the device supplying the CT signal, vs the load presented by whatever value of pot you choose. (and of course that can change as you turn the pot). Also we would need to know the source impedance of your 2V and 7V references. Essentially it as a kind of electrical tug-of-war and we need to know how strong everybody is.

Now I am a little confused since your first drawing showed the pot supplying the motor directly and now you say it only provides a signal to a controller.

I just read BillBobs post and if this signal you have is PWM (which I have every reason to believe he is right) then your plan will not work.

If you need to receive one PWM signal and then create another different one to replace it, that can be done, but you would need to design a circuit to do that which would be somewhat complicated...
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