Re: servo reversal Y lead


"Ed Cregger" <ecregger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

It is a lot more than reversing the wires on the Y-lead. All that would do
is burn up the servo's amplifier chip.

You have to reverse one of your servos, meaning that you have to
disassemble it, reverse the wiring of the motor and then reverse the
outside wires of the feedback potentiometer. This used to be simple to do
when servos were "wired", but most of today's servos are mounted to a PC
board, making this difficult to impossible to accomplish. Your best bet
would be to contact the distributor of the brand of servos you have and
see if they offer a servo reversed from their stock.

If you have some old servos, reversing one is a cheap choice.

There are also servo reversers that are made by several companies, that plug
into the receiver, then the servo into the reverser. They work with some
kind'a processor black magic. <g>

http://www.futaba-rc.com/radioaccys/futm4150.html

http://www.micromagicsystems.com/servoreverser/4518242874

http://members.iinet.net.au/~lextron/models/sr.html

Those are the first three hits when I typed in "servo reverser" into google.
There are many more hits.
--
Jim in NC


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