Servo Signal Basics

By: Chuck McManis

September, 2002

Introduction

To understand what The Servo Gizmo does you need to understand a bit about servo basics. A long time ago when the radio control hobby was young, someone invented a scheme for sending control information via radio signal. This signal needed to convey the position of a control on a transmitter to an actuator on the model. 

Description

The actuator is called a "retract servo" because it can extend or retract a control rod.

 

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