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Subject: 
Twitchy servos
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:05:10 GMT
Original-From: 
Maria Pirsic <mpirsic@chatNOMORESPAM.carleton.ca>
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Hi.

I also have the problem of twitchy servos, but I am currently only using
one of them.  The servo is used in steering and it constantly twitches.
Although, when I have nothing else hooked up to the board and have only
the servo running, no twitch.

I have yet to try Randy Sargent's suggestion of adding a resistor.

Maria


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Maria Pirsic
IEEE Branch Treasurer 96/97
Carleton University
mpirsic@chat.carleton.ca
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  Re: Twitchy servos
 
(...) I'm using a 80C32 board and control two servos by generating a PWM signal with a timer interrupt. It frequently happens that the servos twitch. In my experience the period of 50 ms of the PWM signal was too great. The problem disappeared when (...) (28 years ago, 21-Jan-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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