
feroze
USA
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Hello,
I have a small arm on my robot and when it extends outward the servo makes a slight buzzing sound from the weight of the arm. Is this bad for the servo?
Out of the mouth of our Guru.
If you have room in your robot, get some Dynamat off of eBay and give it a try.
@feroze if you can't do dynamat then I would look into high torque analog servos. In areas where I simply didn't have extra room I found analog were quiet in comparison. Here's a video of two that I had to modify for continous rotation for gearboxes and also a video comparing analog vs digital.
Here's a video comparing accuracy but you can use this as a reference of what difference analog vs digital makes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILKEAgL-a9w&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Here are two analog servos close up and you can hear about how much noise they make ( not much) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTi_U3ogIy4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I can understand your concern , my hitec 5995 ltg servos make a loud buzzing that would drive me nuts even under the lightest load so I found they would not be what I want for my robots shoulders. I went with a analog servo and a gearbox to multiply the torque. You can usually search YouTube by model to see how a servo performs and sounds. Digital will always buzz at least a little and is part of how they work but a analog in some cases can make much less noise. Its all preference.