July 7, 2009 ― Phidgets released the 1066 - PhidgetAdvancedServo 1-Motor which allows users to control the position, velocity, and acceleration of one RC servo motor. The PWM to the servo is updated 50 times per seconds and has a resolution of 0.007º. The 1066 also measures the current being consumed the servo motor.
This feature is useful to assert if the motor is attached and functioning (not consuming any current) or if it is stalled (consuming maximum current).The 1066 is powered solely by the USB cable and does not require any additional power source. It can drive servo motors of up to 450mA.
Product Specifications
- Pulse Code Period: Typical: 20ms - Maximum: 25ms
- Minimum Pulse Width: 83.3ns
- Maximum Pulse Width: 2.7307ms
- Output Impedance (control): 600 Ohms
- Position Resolution: 0.0078125º (15-bit)
- Lower Position Limit: -22.9921875º
- Upper Position Limit: 233º
- Velocity Resolution: 0.390625º/s (14-bit)
- Velocity Limit: 6400º/s
- Acceleration Resolution: 19.53125º/s2 (14-bit)
- Acceleration Limit: 320000º/s2
- Time Resolution: 83.3ns
- Minimum Power Supply Voltage: 6V
- Maximum Power Supply Voltage: 15V
- Maximum Motor Current Surge: 1.6A
- Motor Overcurrent Trigger (combined): 12A
- Operating Motor Voltage: 5.0V
- Device Current Consumption: 36mA maxSoftware EnvironmentUsers can program Phidgets using a simple yet powerful and well documented Application Programming Interfade (API) that is supported under Windows (2000, XP, Vista), Windows CE, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Users can write programs in Visual Basic, VB.NET, C#, C/C++, Flash/Flex, Java, Labview, Matlab, ActionScript 3.0, and Cocoa.
Phidgets also provides programming examples for all its products to help programmers write their own programs.
The API Libraries as well as the examples and the documentation are available at no charge online
Pricing and Availability
The 1066 PhidgetAdvancedServo 1-Motor is available now.
The suggested resale price is $40.00 Canadian.
