crchisholm
New Member
So, I have five parallax standard servos. I want to run them at 5 volts and in some circumstances, all five may be called on to move at once. I have a five volt regulator (radio shack 276-1770) and a wall wart (24 volt - 550ma) - I also have smaller voltages but I thought it might be hand to have 24 volts lurking out there. Now being the rocket scientist that I am, I'm thinking that I can feed all five of these servos from the output power off of the single 5v regulator and since the specs say the regulator can handle up to 1a then as long as I don't allow the combined throughput to go over 550ma, I should be ok. Any comments on my thinking here, no matter how unflattering, would be welcomed.
At this point I have never burned my house down, melted my computer or sent to east coast of the US into darkness, but have had my share of parts frys. Just trying to find a way not to do that.
Thanks in advance
At this point I have never burned my house down, melted my computer or sent to east coast of the US into darkness, but have had my share of parts frys. Just trying to find a way not to do that.
Thanks in advance
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