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Can 7.4/6V Servos Be Fried By A 11V Battery?

My humanoid has a 11v battery, and i'm afraid that it might fry the 7.4/6v micro servos. Will this fry the servos?


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#1  

Let's put it this way... There is a reason why electronics (including things like servos) have a min and max voltage rating... Over volt them and bad things can happen...:D My advice is buy a battery that matches your servos or use a voltage reg to bring down the 11.1v to 7.4v

#2  

some of the servos im using require a 11v voltage, and the micros need a 7.4/6v, so do these regulators only attach to certain ports?

#3  

Depends on what setup you do. One regulator per 1-3 servos or regulate the board with a high amperage regulator and power the 11v servos seperately from the same battery, but not through a regulator.

#4  

Where can I buy a regulator for 2 6v and 2 7.4v servos? any suggestions? the other 20 require 11v (dynamixel 12a's) and I REALLY don't wanna fry those.

#5  

Search for the BUCK regulators or DC to DC stepdown voltage regulator on ebay. Be carefull to put one regulator to one servo. They are cheap. If you put too many servos to that regulator above it's max amp allowance, it will get hot and come apart because it is mostly surface mount technology.

My Honest Opinion.

Hope it helps. some will argue that you can run many servos on one regulator. the proof will be in the pudding.

;)

#6  

Cool! Can anyone give me a link to where I can actually buy some of these? I'm new to this, and I have no idea where to get 4 of them for each servo port.