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Re: pic: Pod

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
I have to say, this was something I never thought these servos could handle. Did you work out any of the math to make sure the servos could handle the load? Did you have any problems with cross talk from your motors messing with your servos?
Surprisingly, from the math, just one servo could handle the regolith with a safety factor of two. Unfortunately, the carpeting required us to move to three.

I’m not sure what you are referring to by cross talk, but we choose to use coarse gears for our drive to account for any servo misalignment. As far as the servos fighting each other, it is very minimal and only towards the limits of their travel.
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