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Unread 20-02-2006, 13:30
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Re: Camera \ EMF problems...

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Originally Posted by btgdaniel
1. Our camera TILT servo motor *always* gets the jitters when we have the RC disabled (with the dongle).

2. It *almost always* get the jitters while we are downloading code to the RC.

It has always behaved this way, even before it was mounted on the robot.

Anyone else seen this behavior?
I think that the problem is that the RC when disabled has an open circuit output with no loading. This leaves the servo to pick up crosstalk from any wiring around it and interpret that noise as a valid PWM command.
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