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Working with Ard, MM, etc

Discussion in 'DIY Motion Simulator Building Q&A / FAQ' started by MTP, Apr 5, 2016.

  1. MTP

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    Hello, I Just ordered 4 of these to mess around with, Turnigy S8166M High Torque Servo, with the end goal of building a G Seat. However i dont know for sure what else i need to do some testing.

    I know i need some sort of Arduino board, i can see what my options are, but would like some input. Assuming im going to use 2 servos per board/plank, i would require a total of 8 servos. Do i want a Ard per board/plank, so 4? Or just one to run them all, and which one do i need if so?

    Do i need Motor Monsters with this?
    Some help with choosing a power supply would be great also.

    The initial goal is just to be able to do some experimenting with these, and learning the ard, simtools, etc.

    Thanks in advance!
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    @noorbeast thanks for the reply.

    Okay, got the Arduino Uno, Got 4 Turnigy S8166m Servos.

    This is the Power supply i am looking at, keep in mind this is for the final build also, and will need to to power 10 servos.

    275W AC/DC ENCLOSED SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY, 5v 55 amp, single output. Is this correct? its a mean well.

    Also Adafruit has a 16 channel 12 bit PWM/Servo Driver, is this okay to to get, since i will be controlling 10 servos, and the Uno can only do 6? right?
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    you are right. you can connect up to 6 servos to the uno with @eaorobbie code but you can also connect up to 6 uno to simtools. that makes us 36 servos
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    as far as i can remember i haven't seen anyone using a adafruit here so can't say if the code will work with it. i would say to get one more uno to hook up the amount of servos you want