Parallax standard servo and DX6i

herishi

Guys

I have just purchased a Parallax standard servo (180 Degree rotation) however when I connect it to my Rx it only turns about 90 degrees even with all of my travel adjust set to max.

What am I missing?

Steve

Duane Degn

I'm not sure if pulses from normal R/C equipment have enough range to ratate the servo a full 180 degrees.

I just found my Parallax standard servo and I'll test it out and let your now what I find in a bit.

Duane Degn

Using normal pulse ranges of 1000us to 2000us, the servo only moves about 90 degrees.

When I used very extreme ranges of 300us to 2492us the servo's rotation was much greater. I think it reached 180 degrees of rotation. I didn't think it rotated a full 180 degrees as I was making the video but when I played the video back, it looked like it was rotating a full 180 degrees.

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YouTube says the upload will take another 14 minutes so check back in a bit to see the rotation for yourself.

Here's the link to the servo tesing software I was using.

So basically, these servos can rotate 180 degrees but you'll likely need a microcontroller to get them to do it.

herishi

thanks for that duane, I wanted to use it to rotate a camera to face forwards or backwards on my quadcopter, so I guess this servo ont work for me :-(

Steve

jtmorales

hey guys names JT and i am a NOOB i got the basic stamp 2 homework board USB and 2 standard servos and i have no idea what i am doing and I live in Puerto Rico and i can not find any books on the subject here, can anyone tll me where i can go to learn more about programing these servos to do the 180 degree turn back and forth manually and do they stay being used on the board or do i need to use another one to operate it, I want to use these to make a project using the iron man face plate