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Re: PWM fried from servo

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Originally Posted by Mschmeh144 View Post
I originally thought they burned up the whole wire, but it looks like it just burned up the insulation, now that I've pulled the insulation away from the still intact copper wire. I don't think the servo got toasted, the smell wasn't coming from the servo. No smoke either. Just the 2 wires I used burned up, both positive and negative wires.
If the insulation on wires running to the servo burned, then it is a fair certainty that too much current flowed through those wires, more than the servo should draw at any time. Thus there must be something wrong inside the servo, say a short. It is possible to "burn" the copper conductors in the wire if the current was even higher.