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Re: Servo watts calculation

It's worth noting that what the servo industry calls "power", knowledgeable people call "wrong". Divide that false rating by 4 to get the theoretical maximum power of the servo, which you can use for mechanism design.

(It's false because there exists no condition1 where a DC brush motor is simultaneously spinning at its free speed and drawing its stall current.)

1 Assuming that the motor is connected only to an electrical power source at steady state.