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| Electronic switches are useful for turning higher voltage (>5V DC) auxiliary equipment on and off via digital outputs on the autopilot board. Most commonly they use relay or MOSFET components. | ||
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| Up to four electronic switches can be operated via joystick button functions when connected to the appropriate signal outputs. |
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it would be nice to like to the document with joystick function. I assume it is in the old docs, so we could either link to it anyway, or have another pass at these docs linking things after the great migration is done.
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or have another pass at these docs linking things after the great migration is done.
Yep, that's the plan. There are several other things that should be linked too, but I don't want to make a bunch of links to the old docs and then have to change them all (partly because doing so would reduce the motivation to changing them, and not doing so increases the motivation to get the other sections done sooner rather than later).
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| The maximum current draw of the power supply on the vehicle is an important consideration when choosing what type and how many thrusters to mount on a vehicle. The maximum current draw at the intended voltage should be totaled up for all the thrusters. If this exceeds the current rating of the power supply, either lower the supply voltage, [limit the maximum thrust](https://discuss.bluerobotics.com/t/raspberry-and-pixhawk-shutdown-problem/10814/2), or remove thrusters. | ||
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| Although brushless or brushed thrusters may be used with ArduSub, they may not be mixed, and the thruster type needs to be paired to an appropriate [Electronic Speed Controller (ESC)](../esc/). |
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they may not be mixed
why?
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Looked into this and it seems like there's a MOT_PWM_TYPE parameter that presumably affects all the "MOTOR" designated outputs. It would be more correct to specify that all motors for vehicle control must support the same type of signal. I'll fix it :-)
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well, those wont work well with sub, as you cant control direction without an h-bridge...
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closes bluerobotics/ardusub-gitbook#223
closes bluerobotics/ardusub-gitbook#224
fixes bluerobotics/ardusub-gitbook#232