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Re: Too many PWM's shorting out power?

el_pablo:

When you said "step motor" before, did you mean "servo"?

You're defining the camX and camY servos, but you never command them to move.

The nouveauMotor device reference is not defined in Begin. You should be seeing an error message on the Driver Station telling you about that.

I can't see YouTube videos from where I am, but I'm going to guess that you haven't installed the servo power jumpers next to the PWM pins on the Digital Sidecar for the camera servos. If they are indeed being powered, then a "twitch" is usually an indication that they're not getting a PWM signal, and are just picking up noise on the wires.