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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: tooslowgamer on June 27, 2009, 06:57:55 PM

Title: Preventing a Servo from moving?
Post by: tooslowgamer on June 27, 2009, 06:57:55 PM

What would happen to a (360 modified) servo (HS-311, to be specific.  With nylon gears.) if you just held it there and prevented it from spinning?  Would it break the gears really fast, or would it take a while letting it try to spin before the gears and stuff broke?

Title: Re: Preventing a Servo from moving?
Post by: SmAsH on June 27, 2009, 07:15:44 PM

the gears would most likely strip or it would just stay put.
depends on the servos really

Title: Re: Preventing a Servo from moving?
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on June 27, 2009, 07:18:45 PM

Most likely you would burn out the motor if you did it for too long.

Title: Re: Preventing a Servo from moving?
Post by: tooslowgamer on June 27, 2009, 09:56:56 PM

How long before they stop moving?

Title: Re: Preventing a Servo from moving?
Post by: ArcMan on June 29, 2009, 03:08:44 PM

Your gears would not strip.  I've done it to every servo I've ever bought, and the gears have never stripped.  That would be a very poor mechanical design if they did.  As Dragon said, the motor would probably eventually get too hot, so you should not run it stalled for very long.