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Power to servos via receiverboard limited #11

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The current design of the receiver shield has several connection points for 
servos, but using the current 5V to power servos you'll only get 2-3 servos 
working before overload/overheating.
Couldn't the power for the servos has it's own power regulator/feed on the same 
board or should there be a servo power PCB made?

What solutions are people using?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lasse.si...@telia.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 6:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Sigge, I use Servo I2C boards scattered inside the droid

Original comment by Michael....@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2014 at 4:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I will use this approach as well ;)
We should make a note of this limitation in the instructions, so there won't be 
any sad :( faces.
I have been thinking of another simple Servo PCB...
Most servo cables are just so long from the servo and using Servo I2C will 
solve this, but for budget builders couldn't we make a small Servo power/signal 
"jump board"?
I mean a simple PCB with 5 or 10 servo connectors (to match the numbers of 
connectors on the receiver board)and a voltage regulator so it could be fed 
from 12-24V directly and use the signal cables from the receiver board and just 
extend it further with this PCB.
This will mean a lot of cables for the signal, but I think it could be of use 
for budget builders or just for extensions using standard R/C cables etc.

Original comment by lasse.si...@telia.com on 18 Mar 2014 at 8:06