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Message #5833

lud733

Posts: 23

Hello,
Just saw the excellent explanation by StephanHo on Stepper Motor setup for Flaps.
Does anyone have a similiar tutorial for a Servo Motor for the Flaps.
Would I be correct if I said you select Servo instead of Stepper in the MF setup and then do the
same Flap increments settings.
Regards

Nick

2017-09-01 13:08

Message #5835

StephanHo

From: EDDG, Germany

Posts: 1867

Supporter

Hi Nick,

originally I used a Servo, but it didn't work ok for me, so I changed it to a stepper, because a stepper runs much more smooth - that's what I like

Which values you need for your Servo you have to figure out by yourself because this is depending of the type of Servo you use.
The principle is basically the same.

As a hint you can take the tutorial for the servo.

Grüße,
Stephan (Time: UTC+2)

2017-09-01 15:15

Message #6023

smoothchat

Posts: 41

Supporter

I had an issue with the stepper acceleration exceeding the stepper ability. At the top of the acceleration speed, the stepper would stop and just buzz.

This is a problem if I start a scenario and the flaps indicator has to return to zero, or move to maximum flaps.

I downloaded the code and changed maximum stepper speed to a lower value, and now it all works well.

2017-09-13 14:54