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ouch...i fried a servo<br />i think it may have been because i left my robot balanced on one leg for too long with mains power.....<br />i left the beast on while i had a small matter to deal to, and unfortunately when i returned it had colapsed and was in the middle of an epileptic sezure - would have been ok if it wasnt powered from mains as battery would have gone flat (i think)- <br />it kept having seizures when i turned it on.....and after a little check i found the knee servo to be very very stiff<br />so after removal and inspection, replaced it with the head servo<br /><br />now the fried servo, aside from being very very stiff smelt as though there had been a melt down<br /><br />i assume that as it was under load and drawing probably close to max amps, and with the addition of time, eventually it over heated causing the meltdown - which in turn upset the the rest of the robots electronics.<br /><br />my question...can i repair it? or do i keep it for spares?<br />oh...final word of warning<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: red">DONT LEAVE ROBOT ON WHEN ABSENT ESP. WHEN MAINS POWERED</span></span><p>Statistics: Posted by <a href="http://forum.robosavvy.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=252">fatman</a> — Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:03 am</p><hr />
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