Hurting my servos?

Archiver

Not in the lest. Servos are smart. This is natural behavior. If you told a
normal servo to move a few millimeters, then I wouldn't accelerate to full
speed then come to a crashing stop. Nope, it would move slowly. You are just
emulating this, and telling it you are going to move a little ways, and
therefore it moves slowly.
-William

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Original Message

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From: Dr. Frankenstein <fwankg@y...>
To: <basicstamps@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 8:45 PM
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Hurting my servos?


> Hello all,
>
> I finally got a mobile robot working that looks alot like the BOE BOT.
> It's been working fine, but I have one question. I use the following
> program to run the servos:
>
> x var word
> for x = 1 to 200
> pulsout 0,300
> pulsout 1,1000
> pause 10
> next
>
> When I first modified my servos, I had to find where my mid points
> were. In the process of finding the mid-point(or stopping point) for
> the servos I discovered something interesting. When I got to a
> number close to the stopping point, the servo would run slow or
> sluggish. I have been using these numbers in my programs to run my
> robot slower than at full speed. Will this in any way damage my
> servos, or even my stamp for that matter?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank G.
>
>
>
>
>

Archiver

Hello all,

I finally got a mobile robot working that looks alot like the BOE BOT.
It's been working fine, but I have one question. I use the following
program to run the servos:

x var word
for x = 1 to 200
pulsout 0,300
pulsout 1,1000
pause 10
next

When I first modified my servos, I had to find where my mid points
were. In the process of finding the mid-point(or stopping point) for
the servos I discovered something interesting. When I got to a
number close to the stopping point, the servo would run slow or
sluggish. I have been using these numbers in my programs to run my
robot slower than at full speed. Will this in any way damage my
servos, or even my stamp for that matter?

Thanks,

Frank G.