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Capacitors and Servomotors

Rafav29Rafav29 Posts: 2
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Hello, I have read that it is necessary to use capacitors together with my servo motors to stabilize the current, but I don’t know what their capacity should be, is there any way to calculate it? My sevomotors have a nominal voltage of 4.8V and use 50mA.

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  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366

    4.7uf works well. Get a 16 Volt cap, You always want to double the working voltage.

  • ercoerco Posts: 20,254
    edited 2021-04-27 18:42

    Rafav: I build many servo devices without any caps. More important IMO is to use adequately large wiring and a capable battery (LiPos rule). I always use two decoupling caps (.01 uF and 10uF) right at the microcontroller pins though, for clean power.

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