Hello,
I just bought an arduino, and am doing my first project. It is very simple, it takes a digital input, and tells a servo to go to one of the extremes based on the input. The sensor is a npn photoswitch (allan bradly, I can give you way more details if necessary). I used the internal pullup resistor to read it. It requires 12v, and the servo I am using is a Hitec HS-311(rated for 6v). I used 8 AAs to power the Arduino Uno R3 and photoswitch, and also fed a dc-to-dc downstepper to go from 12v to 6v. The problem:
Video - YouTube
Troubleshooting:
I used a multimeter to make sure the servo is receiving 6v
I tested a known good servo to eleminate the servo as the problem. similar issues
I tried different pins on the arduino and breadboard. nothing changed.
The code:
int ServoPin = 10;
int SensorPin = 12;
int SensorVal;
void loop()
{
digitalWrite(SensorPin, HIGH); //pullup resistor
SensorVal = digitalRead(SensorPin); //gets sensor
if(SensorVal==HIGH){
analogWrite(ServoPin, 240); //255 is max, 240 in case it wasn't reading the pulses at 255
}
else{
analogWrite(ServoPin,2); //0 is min, 2 is same reason as mentioned above
}
}
I can get you details if you need more, unsure of what else you'd want.
Thanks for the help!
The servo is a servo. And a servo requires a pulsed signal.
But don't worry, a library takes care of the pulses.
http://playground.arduino.cc/Learning/SingleServoExample
You only need three functions:
Declare the class before the setup() function with: Servo myServo;
Set the used pin in the setup() function with: myServo.attach( ServoPin);
Set the rotation angle in the loop() function with: myServo.write(50);
The servo should have some time after the myServo.write().
Add a delay(500); at the end of the loop() function.
Writing to an input for the pull-up resistor is no longer needed.
But you need the newest Arduino 1.0.3
You can specify the pull-up resistor with the pinMode() function: pinMode() - Arduino Reference
If you paste your sketch, you can use the code tags. It is the button with a '#' above the input text field.
It looks like this:
Thanks for all the help guys! Man you are fast.
I didn't realize there was a servo library, or that it needed 40hz. I simply guessed that it used the pwm signal.
Problem Solved!