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  dual servos
 
Greetings all, I have been programming lately using the recently released dual servo routines. I have noticed that if I enable both servos and simply send each of them a pulse (servo_a7(or 5)_pulse=3040 for example) they respond faitfully but then (...) (28 years ago, 16-Jan-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Re: dual servos
 
There may be two separable issues in your experiment: 1. "twitching" when the control value isn't changing. this should not happen. 2. twitching because of flakiness in the pot reading. this would not surprise me at all. if the A to D reading on the (...) (28 years ago, 16-Jan-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Re: dual servos
 
I'm a newbie at this, but I just read yesterday on a web page that servos want a signal (20 ms = ?? degrees) every 50 milliseconds or so, and if you stop sending the signal, they "go limp" and don't "hold" position tightly, but are deenergized and (...) (28 years ago, 17-Jan-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Re: dual servos
 
Hi, Richard wrote: - but I just read yesterday on a web page that servos want a signal (20 ms = ?? degrees) every 50 milliseconds or so Right concept, wrong numbers. Servos want to see a pulse about once every 20ms. The pulse should be in the range (...) (28 years ago, 17-Jan-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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