I am working on a demo project that will be running a Lynxmotion 6-axis arm, potentially controlled by an SSC-32, for up to a few minutes at a time before returning to a “parked” position for maybe a minute or two, then either beginning the cycle again or going to sleep while waiting for the next “do the demo routine” request.
Since there is potential for this demo unit to be receiving a lot of “play”, I would like to power down the servos during the “parked” period, in order to give the servos a bit of a rest. During this rest period, I will be using other servo channels on the controller to do other things.
Cutting power to the SSC-32 would kill power to the arm servos, but also those of the other functions, so that isn’t an option.
I could selectively route the power for the arm servos through their own source, with its own switchable supply, but that’s a bit “kludgy”, and adds some complexity and an additional potential point of failure for something that will have to perform many cycles, essentially unattended.
I know that the Pololu servo controllers have a command that lets you selectively kill the signal to a given servo, which would achieve what I’m trying to do - is there some equivalent command that will tell the SSC-32 to stop sending pulses to a specific channel until it is next told to wake up?
Thanks!
(The details are still being hammered out, but I’ll post a more descriptive account of the demo to the “Projects” section once I get a few more things nailed down.)
