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Re: Programming a Servo

For our purposes, "programming" a servo is just telling it what position to turn to. If it's free to move, it will go there and stop.

If you're burning them out, it's almost certainly because you're mechanically preventing them from getting to where they're being told to go, and they keep trying to run the motor until something overheats.

The "solution" is to determine the minimum and maximum safe positions to send them to, and never command them to go outside that range.
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