Scalerobotics.

I have not been successful getting the RC knowledgeable folks to come clean with the exact signal pulse width specs. The hobby RC folks at our local RC Excitement racetracks and store

http://www.rcexcitement.com/

say that neutral (braking) is 130ms. This makes sense if the max pulse size is 256ms (2 to the 8th for convenient digital counting). How often that pulse is expected I am not sure. I think I read that the shortest pulse is about 50ms and the longest about 200ms. But I have no idea where or how I got that impression.

It would be nice if I could implement a program on my PICkit such that my eyes could detect this variation by observing the glow of an LED.

I neither own an oscilloscope nor have easy access to one. I do have some contacts at the Fitchburg State College Computer Science Department. I could call them and take over my car for a definitive answer.

Enough talk. I'm supposed to be thinking and tinkering.
Ken