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Subject: Re: I killed my Epson perfection 1260 photo. Twice.
From: Gene Heskett
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:57:15 -0400

On Thursday 24 October 2002 06:15, Hein-Jan Leliveld wrote:

>And what is a PWM? The internal scanner-motor?

Its an acronym, stands for Pulse Width Modulation, a method of 
varying the duty cycle of the power applied to the motor.

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