Matrix Orbital Corp

Posted: **Sat Jun 01, 2002 10:57 pm**

Can a GPO be used to control a servo? This link shows how a servo is controlled.

http://www.epanorama.net/documents/motor/rcservos.html

It says that 1.5ms pulses set the servo to one end, and 2.0ms pulses set it to the other. Can a the GPO's be told to turn on/off that quickly/precisely to control the servo? Or would it be better to build a control circuit?

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2002 11:28 am**

The fastest you could get a GPO to turn on and off is about 40mS... so not fast enough to do this, sorry...

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2002 11:59 am**

No problem. I'm working on bribing an EE friend of mine to design the circuit I need. I need to be able to adjust the speed at which it moves, and the endpoints, so it's a bit more complex than I originally thought.

It is going to be controled off off a GPO, tho.

Thanks,
James

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2002 12:01 pm**

On 2002-06-04 11:59, jleach wrote:
No problem. I'm working on bribing an EE friend of mine to design the circuit I need. I need to be able to adjust the speed at which it moves, and the endpoints, so it's a bit more complex than I originally thought.

It is going to be controled off off a GPO, tho.

Thanks,
James

I hope you post some schematics, pictures and a how to, I'm sure others would love to see this, I will host if if you need

Matrix Orbital Corp

servo control?