XTL@sopuli.xyztoAsk Electronics@discuss.tchncs.de•Is “harvesting” small amounts of electricity a fools errand?English
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1 year agohttps://www.iloq.com/ for example does a lot of parasitic energy stuff. Most of the advertised things now seem to be RFID, but I think they also had locks that are powered by the key insertion.
There’s plenty of places where infrastructure power is not available and a flat battery would be a disaster. Door lock is one mundane one. Space is one more extreme one.
It might be doing the PWM in software somehow, making it useless for this kind of control.
You could see if there’s some other class or library or option or particular pin that can use a pulse generator or timer to do PWM instead.
I’m not really familiar with the exact environment but that’s just what comes to mind.