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Servo Wire Trimming

2007-06-02T04:19:35+01:00

Sure you can trim the wire leads. Any ham radio operator will tell you that shorter is better. It avoids some of the RF, cross talk, bleed, and other interference. Actually, ICs can and do pick up RF, radiation, cosmic rays, power spikes, and EMI. Best of all would be shielded and grounded cables but we don't see that in hobby servos. With that bundle of wires directly across the Robonova controller board, makes you wonder how the motherboard can take it!

humanoido

Statistics: Posted by Humanoido — Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:19 am

Servo Wire Trimming

2007-06-01T18:38:47+01:00

You should maybe consider building or buying a few 2 or 3 inch servo wire extenders. They are male on one end and female on the other. Keep them in your tool kit for that emergency when U need to swap servos and the lead isn't long enough. I got two with my KHR-1. I didn't use them but they are nice to have.

Statistics: Posted by DanAlbert — Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:38 pm

Servo Wire Trimming

2007-06-01T17:07:35+01:00

Go to a hobby or model sports shop where you can buy the crimp tool and connectors. Then you can trim till your hearts content.
Bear in mind that you cannot add back the bit you trim off, so if you need to swap servos for some reason you may need to replace the whole lead. This involves opening the servo and soldering!!!

Marcus.

Statistics: Posted by DirtyRoboto — Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:07 pm

Servo Wire Trimming

2007-06-01T14:38:09+01:00

To make alot more room on RN1's back, cooulnt't you just resize all those bunched up servo wires for the arms and legs. Especially after adding something like a rcvr, theres not much room. Is there any concerns with trimming these wires as long as nothing gets crossed ofcourse. I wasn't sure if there was an issue with signals and the lengths of wire..........

Statistics: Posted by viper1 — Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:38 pm