Servos twitch uncontrollably

[jimmanuel]

I recently assembled my smart car and ran the both sudo python test.py Servo and sudo python servo.pyand neither produces the expected results that are described in the manual. As soon as a signal is sent to the servos they begin rapidly twitching left and right and never reach a stable, stopped position. They continue twitching even after I execute asudo shutdown -P now` to turn off the pi and they don't stop until I turn off the Load Switch on the board. Any advice of help would be appreciated.

[jimmanuel]

Sorry, didn’t mean to create the duplicate

[Shaynee-MO]

Hi! Please run the following commands one by one and send us screenshots of the results. getconf LONG_BIT cat /proc/cpuinfo cat /etc/rpi-issue

If possible, please send a video of the servo twitching to our support email: support@freenove.com.

[jimmanuel]

here's my command output:

jim@pi-car:~ $ getconf LONG_BIT
32
jim@pi-car:~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 38.40
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd03
CPU revision    : 4

processor       : 1
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 38.40
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd03
CPU revision    : 4

processor       : 2
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 38.40
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd03
CPU revision    : 4

processor       : 3
model name      : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS        : 38.40
Features        : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xd03
CPU revision    : 4

Hardware        : BCM2835
Revision        : a020d4
Serial          : 00000000b9588dd2
Model           : Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.4
jim@pi-car:~ $ cat /etc/rpi-issue
Raspberry Pi reference 2023-12-05
Generated using pi-gen, https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen, 02b371de1a87bbe70cfcbd498527067a7d2ee6ca, stage4

I'll send a video shortly, as requested. I also have some new data - I removed the camera portion from the servo assembly and retested it; for a short while it worked as expected but then started acting up after some time. When it acts up the servos become incredibly hot to the touch.