3 years 4 weeks ago, 4:03 PM
cbxjeff  |
servo motor question
Working on a camera mount for a small survalience helicopter. My elec pal at work is on vacation & I know nothing about motors. Is a servo motor direction easily reversed like a simple brush type D.C. motor? Thanks guys, It's too late for me, save yourself. |
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HampsterW
I have a T-Rex 450 chopper, they are fun to fly. Here is some info:
http://fatlion.com/sailplanes/servos.html
Schuyler
they are driven by servos.
HampsterW
RC servos are quite different than the electric motors in your car
windows. In an RC servo if you reverse polarity it will either burn
out the servo, the transmitter or both. Most modern transmitters
have servo reverse switches to reverse the direction of the servo.
Vaquero
You dried out yet?
We got thunderstorms predicted all night .
HampsterW
it has cleared up a bit, looking like it might be a decent weekend to go shootin. I think what we are getting here is causing gregs snow problems.
cbxjeff
Thanks guys. My biggest problem is weight. He has a motor that offers 100 oz/in which is probably OK if I can limit the tilt on his 1# Nikon & balance the camera over the pivot point. My total weight constraint of (just my mount & tilt pieces) of about 2.5 pounds is a problem. Now that I know the servo can be reversed I can use a worm gear drive for the tilt as it won't allow the camera to back drive the gear train. Nothing is easy & I'm not getting ritch!
Thanks again,