Going Digital – The Benefits of Digital R/C Servos
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Despite the numerous similarities, digital servos provide many benefits over traditional analog servos. This article will discuss some of the advantages of choosing digital servos for your next R/C project and address the relatively few drawbacks. A future article will describe the technical differences between the two.
The primary benefits of a digital servo relative to an analog servo are:
- Improved holding torque
- Finer resolution
- Smaller deadband
- Faster acceleration
- Programmable functionality