How to turn off a Hitec digital servo

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I decided to split this off as it’s own topic.

On my Rover I would like to be able to turn the arm completly off. The arm currently uses two large digital servos.

So far I have not seen much information on this, except from the RoboSavy website, that mentions getting the position information from a digital servo and during that process it turns off the servo… So I will try it.

The link to this is at: robosavvy.com/Builders/i-Bot/HSR8498HB%20Servo.pdf

May be fun to see if I can as a side effect get the position information as well.

Kurt

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Well the 5745 servos are digital, but not necessarily HMI compatible. Looks like anything with an R in the part number excluding the HSR-425CR has the HMI ability. HS-5*** are just more powerful versions of analog counterparts.

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the article you link kurte appears to be written and maintained by lynxmotion forum user named ribbotson. he did a lot of work reverse engineering the protocol used to communicate with the hitec digital servos. if anybody outside of a hitec employee knows how to go about twiddling a hitec servo he is probably the guy to ask.