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Old 03-01-2016, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by jayel7
O.k. - I'll give it a try! The vintagercfiles will be a big help too.
Thanks,
John
Yes, the above diagram is correct.

You may have a problem testing your servos on a tester as many of the older servos required a pulse voltage at or near supply voltage. Many of the later IC or processor based testers output a pulse voltage quite a bit below supply so the servo may or may not respond. If necessary a couple of transistors or a TTL gate could be configured as a buffer to improve the output pulse. When working on this old stuff (some years ago) I usually just used a receiver output as a test source.