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I was showing my wife for the first time how to position Six. and as we were working on it. I smelled that electrical smell you get what things are not going right. looked down and the servo was glowing. I cut the power by the switch under him but there is melting damage. I have had my six since. What is the length of time one can ask for a defective part replacement?
Mac, James had sent me a message regarding your conversation - everything is being taken care of
glad to hear there were no flames. The smoke may be misleading - however, that's the result of any circuit protection
Hi
I do a lot of work with robots and general R/C stuff and I burn servos sometimes. Sometimes servos fail because of damage to the internal gears. this can happen if you to much force on the servo. Even if the servo is powerless you can damage the gears inside if you move the arm suddenly with to much force. If you strip a gear sometimes the servomotor will run without moving the arm. But sometimes parts of the gears block the transmisson and the servo burns out for no reason. For me this sometimes happens in my R/C planes where a bad landing can stress the servos.
To prevent overload in my robots i make a small board with fuses for servopower. Then i measure the current in normal operation and picks a fuse as close to the value as possible. If a servo gets blocked or overloaded the fuse will cut Power Before the magic smoke appears.
Fuses are the bomb! Best thing that ever happened for protection since the trojans invented the concept. To save in fuse cost and make it more user friendly they do make resettable fuses of all sizes. Kinda like little snap in circuit breakers. Very cool and less flustrating. eek