{"id":71,"date":"2011-11-28T04:16:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T04:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/?p=71"},"modified":"2020-05-28T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T20:47:12","slug":"pulse-width-modulation-pwm-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/2011\/11\/28\/pulse-width-modulation-pwm-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"What is PWM? Pulse Width Modulation Tutorial in HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PWM circuits are fun. You can use them to dim LEDs, control the speed of fans and motors, control the power going to a thermoelectric cooler, or control the power going to pretty much anything you want. Just make sure that you don&#8217;t exceed the maximum voltage rating of your device. The video explains it all.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YmPziPfaByw\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The pulse width modulation circuit diagrams from the video:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"PWM circuit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afrotechmods.com\/groovy\/PWM_tutorial\/PWMcircuit.jpg\" alt=\"PWM circuit\" width=\"964\" height=\"684\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"PWM circuit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afrotechmods.com\/groovy\/PWM_tutorial\/PWMcircuitwithmotor.jpg\" alt=\"PWM circuit\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PWM circuits are fun. You can use them to dim LEDs, control the speed of fans and motors, control the power going to a thermoelectric cooler, or control the power going to pretty much anything you want. Just make sure that you don&#8217;t exceed the maximum voltage rating of your device. The video explains it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,56,53,27,67],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intermediate-tutorials","tag-leds","tag-mosfet","tag-motor-control","tag-power-electronics","tag-pwm"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PWM-thumbnail-332x187.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}