PSC Question

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• Tom Walker Posts: 509

  2006-07-24 15:05 edited 2006-07-24 15:05

  This has more to do with the nature of servos. In reality, all typical servos must be driven all of the time. Without their 20 ms control signal, their output shaft can easily be turned...in other words, they won't hold their position without constant updates.
  
  So, yes, you can address only one servo if you wish, but all of them will be "controlled" to hold their last requested position without any further intervention from you.
  
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• Mike Green Posts: 23,101

  2006-07-24 15:08 edited 2006-07-24 15:08

  This sentence describes the general capabilities of the PSC. In other words, it allows you to vary the servo control pulse width over a range corresponding to 180 degrees of rotation and it can simultaneously control up to 8 servos. You normally send a command to the PSC with the pulse width for a specific servo, but it will continue to maintain the positions of up to 8 without further attention. In other words, you normally request the PSC to move 1 specific servo. You can immediately request it to move a different servo, before the first has completed its movement. If you were trying to control 8 servos with a Stamp, you would have to continuously (roughly every 20ms) send a control pulse to all 8 servos, one at a time. That might take the whole 20ms cycle period (8 * 2.5ms) leaving no time for anything else. Using a PSC avoids this.
• crgwbr Posts: 614

  2006-07-25 12:22 edited 2006-07-25 12:22

  Thanks
  
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