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Offline tooslowgamerTopic starter

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Preventing a Servo from moving?
« 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?
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Re: Preventing a Servo from moving?
« Reply #1 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
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Re: Preventing a Servo from moving?
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2009, 07:18:45 PM »
Most likely you would burn out the motor if you did it for too long.
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Re: Preventing a Servo from moving?
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2009, 09:56:56 PM »
How long before they stop moving?
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Re: Preventing a Servo from moving?
« Reply #4 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.
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