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Re: Regulating power to a servo with a relay
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Originally Posted by apalrd
If you want it to not hold its position, then turn it off. If you do not feed it a control signal, it will turn itself off. The way to turn it off is to not give it a control signal, either by letting the watchpuppy kill it or by closing the device when you don't want it to move. (since both of those will tell the FPGA to stop outputting a control signal to that device). Neither one is really an answer, but a workaround. I don't really see why you would need to make it stop, since you can't really smoke those little things (from what I've seen at least) and they don't output much power.
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I think Servo::SetOffline() is intended to stop driving the servo (I've never used it). No need for a workaround
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Originally Posted by Ethan Spitz
The problem is its a retract servo, so even when you stop giving it signal, it keeps going till its either all the way clockwise or all the way counterclockwise
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If you don't want this feature, why not use a regular positional servo?
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Last edited by The Lucas : 26-01-2011 at 23:01.
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