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Servo Library for Arduino
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Make output frequency of the PWM signal adjustable. #91

Open NAmmann opened 2 years ago

NAmmann commented 2 years ago

It happens, that some servos or other motor controllers require the PWM signal to be outputted at a specific frequency. These frequency my be between 5 and 400 Hz. It would be awesome to configure that output frequency on initialization of a single servo or on a global scale.

silvan2468 commented 2 years ago

You can do this by change the refresh rate in servo.h. But it is magic for me, why the possible frequeny decreases as more servo objects are generated. With only on servo, 333 Hz ar possible. With 2 servos 200 Hz and with 4 servos about 150 Hz. Why is this? I would understand this with 8 bit / 16 MHz prozessors. But why also with the much faster 32 bit processors with frequencies >48 MHz? Is this library up to date or an old dinosaurus? ;)

hpssjellis commented 1 year ago

@per1234 Looks similar to

https://github.com/arduino/arduino-examples/issues/62

Can the line below be accessed from the sketch to be changed before the Servo include file is loaded?

Note a refresh interval of 20000 us is 0.02 seconds is 1/0.02 = 50 Hz. So 333 HZ needs a refresh interval of 3003 us (1/333 = 0.003003 seconds)

#define REFRESH_INTERVAL    20000     // minimum time to refresh servos in microseconds