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Digital vs Analog Servos


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I bought some mini digital servos by mistake (par for the course these days ) and they "buzz" a lot. As soon a you touch a stick, and sometimes just on their own, they want to move and the buzz is quite noisy. Is this normal or am I operating them wrongly?

Set up is a FRSKY Taranis Q X7 tx, various receivers and 4.8v Ni'Mh supply. 

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John, a digital servo sends power pulses to the servo's motor at a higher frequency than an analog servo. This digital servo motor control pulse rate (frequency) is distinct from the frequency of the PWM control signal from the receiver to the servo.

 

As Philip says, hearing the buzz is normal, it is likely to be in your comfortable audible frequency range.

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My experience with buzzing digital servos is that the buzzing is significantly reduced when the faster 10ms setting is selected instead of 20ms. I’ve noticed this on a few models and now buzzing is a reminder to me to get into the receiver setup and change the setting.

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15 hours ago, Neil James said:

My experience with buzzing digital servos is that the buzzing is significantly reduced when the faster 10ms setting is selected instead of 20ms.

Interesting Neil, I was fairly convinced about that characteristic as well so I follow the same practice. 
 

Tim

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