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16-Channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Driver – I2C interface – PCA9685

$21.00 $16.80

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  • This product comes with a fully tested and assembled breakout as well as 4 pieces of 3×4 male straight header (for servo/LED plugs), a 2-pin terminal block (for power) and a piece of 6-pin 0.1″ header (to plug into a breadboard). A little light soldering will be required to assemble and customize the board by attaching the desired headers but it is a 15 minute task that even a beginner can do.
    Key Features

    It’s an i2c-controlled PWM driver with a built in clock. That means that, unlike the TLC5940 family, you do not need to continuously send it signal tying up your microcontroller, its completely free running!
    It is 5V compliant, which means you can control it from a 3.3V microcontroller and still safely drive up to 6V outputs (this is good for when you want to control white or blue LEDs with 3.4+ forward voltages)
    6 address select pins so you can wire up to 62 of these on a single i2c bus, a total of 992 outputs – that’s a lot of servos or LEDs
    Adjustable frequency PWM up to about 1.6 KHz
    12-bit resolution for each output – for servos, that means about 4us resolution at 60Hz update rate
    Configurable push-pull or open-drain output
    Output enable pin to quickly disable all the outputs
    Terminal block for power input (or you can use the 0.1″ breakouts on the side)
    Reverse polarity protection on the terminal block input. The terminal block included with your product may be blue or black.
    Green power-good LED
    3 pin connectors in groups of 4 so you can plug in 16 servos at once (Servo plugs are slightly wider than 0.1″ so you can only stack 4 next to each other on 0.1″ header
    “Chain-able” design
    A spot to place a big capacitor on the V+ line (in case you need it)
    220 ohm series resistors on all the output lines to protect them, and to make driving LEDs trivial
    Solder jumpers for the 6 address select pins

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