servo noise and occasional jittering

emacholdt / teasy_bot

teasy bot - Arduino based tea robot

MIT License

0 stars 0 forks source link

Open emacholdt opened 5 years ago

emacholdt commented 5 years ago

Describe the bug The servo which is attached to the lifting arm is jittering when remaining its position.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Start 2a. Select and Start any infusion method 2b. don't do anything (Servo is already attached)
See error

Expected behavior There should be no noise or jittering when the servo is not moving.

Verison (please complete the following information):

emacholdt commented 5 years ago

try adding a (470uF or greater) capacitor between GND and 5V https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-arduino-lesson-14-servo-motors/if-the-servo-misbehaves

or check whether an external power supply does produce the same result