[RCSE] servos...digital vs analog

2001-07-12 Thread Tord S Eriksson
The biggest servos I know of are those that keep the modern type of windmill pointing into the wind. They too have problem with deadband logic. To save the motors from constantly adjusting the windmills direction they simply lock up the shaft (by the help of a really big disc brake) till the erro

RE: [RCSE] servos...digital vs analog

2001-07-10 Thread Kerry Cochrell
Arne, Most of the new helicopter gyros have an option to drive servos at a high frame rate [250-270hz] and I can tell you that a standard analog and some digital servos will self destruct when driven at the high rate. More than a few heli pilots have done this either by accident or as you sug