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Offline Hawaii00000Topic starter

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Running servos and microcontrollers off the same battery.
« on: January 22, 2009, 10:51:15 PM »
Is it true that running servos and microcontrollers off the same battery causes interference?
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Re: Running servos and microcontrollers off the same battery.
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2009, 01:11:02 AM »
Yes. Servos, like any other motors, generate "electric noise". You can remove some of this noise by using capacitors on your power supply lines around the ICs in your circuit. Mount a 0.1uF capacitor between +5V and GND as close to each IC as possible and maybe a larger capacitor near the voltage regulator.

 


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