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Odd servo behavior with max throw
I bought one of those cheap 20kg servos off Amazon to put into a basher Arrma. Currently it's running a DX5C radio with a SR6100AT receiver. With all trim zero'd out and travel set to 100% the servo has limited travel maybe around 70°. If I just straight swap in the stock Arrma servo it has full 90° of rotation.
I thought maybe it's hitting some sort of mechanical limit of the servo so I put into a car running a Noble NB4 and it has full 90° of rotation. Could it just be some weird combo of the DX5C and this 20kg servo that it won't get full rotation? Even if I crank the travel to 150% in the radio it won't go any farther that 70°. Kind of baffling since I never encountered this before. Has anyone ran into something like this before? |
How far does the servo rotate if you move it manually without power?
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It just moves around in a continuous circle.
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what are the exact specs of servo.. do you know for sure it ha smore than your said 70 degree seep?. seen a few listed with a 70 degree sweep and seen some listed with 210 degree s. gotta know what model it is as in servo #.. you can see what servos sweep really is with a servo tester on auto..
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Which brand of ESC do you have in each respective car?
I have seen cases of servo incompatibility with Castle ESC's in the past which is why I ask. |
Here is a link to the servo off Amazon
***okay can't post links yet but if you search for DS3218 Pro on Amazon it's that one.*** The car it's going into is a friend's Typhon 3S which I believe runs a BLX100 esc. I tested in one of my cars running a Noble NB4 with HW XR8 SCT esc and it gets a normal amount of throw. I think one of my chargers has a servo tester port but I've never used it. I can see about checking it that way. Just strange that it changes that much depending which car it's plugged into. First real time dealing with a cheap servo so this could be one of the reasons it's so cheap lol |
Does the DX5C have different frame rate settings? If so I would try going with the lowest frame rate to see if that helps.
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it says 180 angle so id check what bill has said frame rate of radio
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Yeah that was of the settings I was messing with yesterday. I just tried it again but made no difference. Tried rebinding and re-calibrating with and without AVC. I think I messed with every setting available lol.
I created a small adjustable turnbuckle to replace the stock fixed arm. I think if I made it a few mm longer than the stock arm it would compensate for the lower range of motion. |
I have a couple DS3218 servos, one in a sct410 with a radiolink transmitter, 1 in a slash and 1 In a cheap redcat, both with crap RTR radios. All work just fine and full throw
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