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  More servo stuff
 
I believe someone asked a similiar question to this but I didn't get an answer (I don't think). Question relating to the HB expansion board and servo control (or lack of same). I can control standard servos (S148, 3003 etc.) just fine, they run as (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Re: More servo stuff
 
Try placing a capacitor across +5V and ground. Get something in the range of 0.1 - 0.47 microfarads and just plug it into the headers on the HB. This solved my problems. -Scott Harris (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  Re: More servo stuff
 
(...) I did this but it didn't help. *sigh* Thanks for the tip! (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  RE: More servo stuff
 
I had the same problem. The servo would run fine if the program was not doing anything else. But if I was updating the pwm to the motor ports then the servo would jitter. I figured it was because the extra overhead was screwing up the timing on the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 
  RE: More servo stuff
 
Hi. We have a problem with servo as well. When we test one servo motor, it works just fine. But when we test more than one, the speed of each servo decreases. Does anyone have similar problem? Thanks for your help. Damee Choi (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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