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Re: How do the servos work?

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Originally Posted by Mike Soukup
I think you first need to understand how a servo behaves. Unlike a motor, you do not give a servo a speed, you give it a position. If you directly map a motor to the y-axis of a joystick and push the stick half way forward, the motor will run at half speed until you release the stick, then it will stop. If you do the same with a servo, it will rotate half way to one end and stay there, then when you release the stick it will return to the middle. The servo is actually a motor and a potentiometer all in one, it performs the whole feedback loop for you. You give the servo a position (from 0-255) and it goes to that position and stays there until you give it a new position. They're actually pretty cool little devices.
so how would i make it come back, well we were just testing the sevo using Turing We made it output 1 with a small delay and looped it.

So how would i make it come back???? we tried to output 0 but it doesn't come back any ideas???
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