Servo Board Maintenance[^1]

Equipment

Laptop
Small flat bladed screwdriver
Bench PSU
Micro USB cable
7.5mm plug¹ to fork terminals
1x servo

Set up

Set the bench PSU to 12V±0.1V with a 200mA±10mA current limit.

Procedure

Execution time: 1 minutes per board.

Plug the bench PSU into the power input.
Turn on the bench PSU.
Plug the servo board into the laptop using the micro USB cable.
Check that the green LED next to the USB socket lights up.
Check that the board draws no more than 40mA.
Run ./scripts/servo_test.py and follow the instructions.

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