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Red face Re: [FTC]: Do Servo's reset during start up?

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Originally Posted by wilsonmw04 View Post
I believe that the servos try and set to zero at start up. You can change this with coding I think. I believe that's how we solved our problem. I'll check with my Programmers and have them post what we did.
When power is applied to the servo controller the servos get a momentary glitch which makes them twitch, but they are not held in that position.
Then unless you send a servo command the servo will just stay where you put them ( by hand ).
In labview, servo commands go from 1 - 255. A servo position of 0 means go to the last commanded position. Once you send a servo command, the servo goes there and holds that position. If you don't issue another command for a few seconds, the servo will power down.
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