Camera Pan Tilt Power

Posted by Damo on October 18, 2014 at 10:48am

With JP1 removed, is it ok to power my finwing 390 pan tilt servos from the oututs of the APM on channels 6 and 7?

thanks

Damo

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  • Johann van de Venter October 18, 2014 at 10:52am

    No 

    You will brown out your APM. 

    APM is not intended to power Servos. Use a BEC for the power. Only connect signal wire of servos to the APM.

    • Damo > Johann van de Venter October 18, 2014 at 2:37pm
      With jp1 removed the bec from the esc powers the output so It is the same as powering directly from the bec or am I missing something?
    • HOH > Damo October 20, 2014 at 12:48pm

      Yes, it's fine since you have the JP1 out.

    • Spencer Willis > Damo October 18, 2014 at 10:34pm
      Sounds okay to me. You probably want to power the output rail with only one esc (or use the cable from the 3DR PDB which provides 5V from one of the ESCs).
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