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Is there any good reason why the PWM outputs on the timer 1 channel are limited to 8 bits? They are capable of 16 bits. I'm considering making a PID servo control library for the arduino capable of controlling a servo motor with quadature encoder feedback. It would be great know what current limitation there are on the use of timmer 1. If it is being used for other operations I would hate to be limmited to using an 8 bit output for a servo drive. Any information in why the analog output is limited to 8 bits would be wonderful.

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It's limited to 8 bits only for consistency with the PWM output on other timers / pins.  You should be able to use it in whatever mode you like.  Only timer 0 is used for other things (the millis() and delay() functions).

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Take a look here  http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1206876336

I am using 10 bit resolution ok.