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Why servos can get a bit spendy

A project log for GimbalBot

Gimbaled thrusters, aerospace-grade adhesives, carbon-fiber-reinforced polymers, and inertial measurement units. This is a space project!

zakqwyzakqwy 07/20/2014 at 13:590 Comments

I'm impatient for my CFRP to arrive; in the meantime, I wrote a quick program to test servo actuation speed. Pretty much "go to 90 degrees, wait 200 milliseconds, then go to 0 degrees, then wait 200 milliseconds". Repeat.

Results, comparing the Hitec HS-8360TH to a JR Sport ST47BB I had lying around:

Yup, I think I'll use the fancy ones.

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