Hi,

you need to ground your servo to both grounds. To the BBC ground and your
power supply. You need a common ground to make everything work.

Roy

2014-10-15 2:29 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>:

> I believe you have misunderstood me :)
> The servo is powered by an external power supply at 5VDC. The signal is
> from an expansion header. The ground is the same expansion header's ground.
>
> On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 10:23:47 AM UTC-5, Gerald wrote:
>>
>> Please do not tie a 5VDC servo direct to the pins of the expansion header.
>>
>> http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack#Expansion_Header_Usage
>>
>> I doubt the servo, one that you have failed to define, can be driven by
>> 6mA,which is the extent of the drive of the 3.3V pins on the board.
>>
>>
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody.
>>> I've got a Beaglebone Black Rev A6A here, and no matter what I do, I
>>> can't get a servo running. I've tried Adafruit's nice BBIO.PWM library (to
>>> no avail) and I've tried using Bonescript. I've grounded the servo to the
>>> BBB, and run 5VDC in from a regulated Elenco supply to the servo. No matter
>>> what I do, I can't get it to turn. If I ground the servo to the power
>>> supply's COM, then it simply whines, no matter the duty cycle. If I ground
>>> it to the bone, nothing happens.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
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