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Does anyone know what's the best frequency to switch at when you're driving the 120:1 Pololu plastic gearmotors with PWM via a L293?

These motors : http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1125

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(And remember the date #;¬)

The M2 Picaxe series has multitasking (time slicing) to allow up to 4 tasks to run simultaneously which the manual says is to make monitoring switches and flashing LEDs etc, easier to program.  I was just wondering has anyone explored how far you can take the multiple tasks idea.  Has anyone, for example, tried controlling a servo, monitoring switches and varying PWM on a motor?

I've got a feeling that everything will get a bit glitchy, but perfectly happy to be proved wrong.

Just come across these very cheap, high capacity AA and AAA NiMH cells on Amazon - 8 x 1100mAH AAA for under 6 quid delivered.  UK company - Worcester based, but I can't get much sense from their website ( http://www.palo.co.uk/ ).  I can't find any independent test data on them - The only promising link is a 404. Anybody had any experience with these? 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pack-Palocell-Rechargeable-Batteries-NIMH/dp/B005T661C6