PWM fried from servo

[Mschmeh144]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Do I understand correctly that the wires burned up? If so, it seems more likely that you had a mechanical short somewhere, possibly created by the "sudden jerk". A failure of the servo unit due to over-voltage would more likely result in the circuit opening; the wires would have been spared.

I originally thought they burned up the whole wire, but it looks like it just burned up the insulation, now that I've pulled the insulation away from the still intact copper wire. I don't think the servo got toasted, the smell wasn't coming from the servo. No smoke either. Just the 2 wires I used burned up, both positive and negative wires.