How do you mean control the servos without a radio? I think that's the only way to get a signal to them... right? I know there is a failsafe of some sort for nitro powered cars in the highend radios so the car will stop instead of using the last command it had before it lost contact. Not sure how that works though... prolly part of the receiver.
Now that I think about it I think I understand what you mean. You must be making something that you need to control with the servo onboard so you don't need a radio? Like a wire between the servo and something to control it that way?
Servos have 3 wires - one for power and the other 2 are used to control each direction the servo is capable of going. Maybe you could use some sort of dial? to control the servo through it's sweep? or unless you just need the servo to operate from full lock to lock? then maybe some kind of switch? Not sure what kind of switch or dial would work though.
well you guys are kind of right and kind of wrong. Yes a servo has three wires. one hot, one ground and one signal. the signal works on a pulse thing. I found a thing caller aq servo driver which is basically the control with out the radio frequency stuff.
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Phoenix Member
Posts: 112 From: St. Bonifacius, MN USA Registered: Mar 2000
3 wire servos work as follows: 1 wire +v, one wire ground, the third wire signal. The signal can be either positive shift (most radios) or negative shift (airtronics I think). The pulse width if the signal will be 1.5 ms for the nuetral position and 1 ms will be full deflection one direction and 2 ms will be full deflection the other direction. I've built servo drivers and related acc. and over the past 30 years of RC tinkering I've run across a lot of near gadgets.
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Posts: 2741 From: Merritt Island, FL USA Registered: Jun 99
Another way to put that would be to say that on the signal input a pulse width modulated pulse train with a period of 1 ms and a 50% duty cycle is the neutral position, any duty cycle less than 50% is reverse, with 0% being full reverse, and any duty cycle more than 50% is forward, with 100% being full forward.
But thats six of one and half a dozen of the other.
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