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Re: Which servo? What's the difference between them?

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Originally Posted by mman1506 View Post
I'm a bit confused about what your trying to say here. Why would consuming more than 12W break the servo's potentiometer?
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... limited to a max current output of 2.2A on the 6V rail (12.4W of electrical input power).
It's not about breaking the servo pot, it's because servo operation by the rules is limited to a connection on the roboRIO that supplies a max 12.4w, any mechanism that needs more than 12.4w of power needs to be powered by something other than a servo.
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