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Subject: 
servo ports on Exp board...help?
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Date: 
Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:22:59 GMT
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Hi
the servo ports on my expboard seem to work fine, but when the servos
are'nt active ( init_expbd_servos(0); ) and a motor is turned on the ports go
crazy , servos will turn eratically, with hacked servos they just move in one
direction. Would a filter cap help and if so were would one put it , in the
motor ports or servo supply?

Thanx -Alex

PS- now that I think about it could seperating the servo supply to a diff. batt
work?.

Thanx again.



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  Re: servo ports on Exp board...help?
 
Hi, We saw this exact problem last year. Our servos went so crazy that they actually destroyed their gears and had to be scrapped. The fix is simple, solder a capacitor across the motor leads. The motor causes noise on the lines which the servo (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
  Re: servo ports on Exp board...help?
 
Hi again, I should have mentioned this in the first message. In our case, the motor that was causing the problems was a fan motor (to blow out a candle) and it was completely electrically isolated from all of the other circuitry. It had its' own (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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