duty cycle
It’s a way of saying how long the signal is ‘on’ compared to how long it’s ‘off’. For example, 25% means the signal is on a quarter of the time.
Duty cycle is the percentage of time a signal is active versus inactive in an electronic control system. In this context, it describes how much of the signal’s cycle is on for each transmission sensor.
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"inside the transmission, trans one, trans two, and it shows duty cycle or percentage. So if in park, trans one reads 25%, trans two has to read 75% in reverse."
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"And then the way that those LEDs are driven, they're driven at like 25% duty cycle. And so we're not driving the lights as hard, which makes you, makes them more efficient, put off less heat and..."
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"...you could get to forty eight percent in a full a pure ice you know, and duty cycle because once you go e Rev you can play a lot of tricks..."
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