Slowing servos - How to?

alan2525 · 25-02-2007

Slow Servos

Can anyone reccomend a product to slow down the rotational speed of a typical Proportional servo. I don't want to create a delay on the servo but just slow the speed it takes to rotate.

A cheap, Compact solution if possible!

I'm figuring out how the gun elevation will operate on my tank, it loses the scale look if the gun barrel waves around like a london cabbie's middle finger!

adzam · 25-02-2007

action used to do a kit but it has just very recently been withdrawn due to low sales.

you could try and contatc them , they may have one or too still kicking about

http://www.actionkit.co.uk/

**Bunkerbarge** · 25-02-2007

Mount a gear wheel on the servo outlet and use that to drive another gear or even a gearbox. You can reduce the rotation to what speed you want then.

alan2525 · 25-02-2007

I wanted to control the time it takes for the servo to travel it's full throw, at present it's about 1/2 a second.

There are units for slowing down servos for flaps and retracts on aircraft but wondered if anyone found any that were particularly good.

bogstandard · 26-02-2007

Try here
http://bentleyradiocontrol.co.uk/wordpress/archives/16
These are about the best, but I had to use servo boosters with them to get them to work with my Robbe F14 set, and he is great to deal with. I think he builds to order, so expect a slight delay in delivery.
Have got 3 of these on my Dusseldorf build and they give a fairly smooth action, others I have tried move in 'steps' and look too 'jerky'