Hi
I've recently purchased an Adafruit feather 8 channel servo driver for a school project.
No matter what I tried, the 8-channel feather servo driver is not working for me. It shows up on an i2c scanner, but the servos either jitter slightly or are completely unable to move. This is using both a feather rp2040 and a feather huzzah 8266. Both of them run and compile the servo test code for the 8 channel i2c driver. I have tested controlling the servos directly via pwm, and they work flawlessly.
I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Please let me know if you have any suggestions in regards to this.
Many thanks
Yossi Guetta
Adafruit feather 8 channel servo driver.
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Adafruit feather 8 channel servo driver.
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Re: Adafruit feather 8 channel servo driver.
Post a photo showing your connections between the microcontroller and the Servo Driver and we'll take a look. 800x600 images usually work best.
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Re: Adafruit feather 8 channel servo driver.
The feather board is stacked underneath the servo driver. Power is supplied to the feather through USB and the servo driver gets power from a 3.3v 1200mah lipo battery
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Re: Adafruit feather 8 channel servo driver.
Thanks. What are you using as a power source for the servos?
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Re: Adafruit feather 8 channel servo driver.
A 3.3v 1200mah lithium ion battery.
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Re: Adafruit feather 8 channel servo driver.
Ok. I tried it with 5v and it worked! Thanks.
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Re: Adafruit feather 8 channel servo driver.
Gladd to hear that did the job. Happy hacking!
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