Great New Miniature Servo

[Subculture]

I contacted Aroosh at Sombra Labs regarding this potential problem and here are his commentrs.

The operating voltage range should be fine, after all the servo bus on the SL-8 just re-supplies the battery voltage to the connected devices. As long as this new receiver conforms to the industry standard PWM input, it should work fine. If you're concerned, get one sample to test out before ordering a large quantity. I've actually never received a word regarding issues with servos with our receivers.

Regards,

Aroosh Elahi
Sombra Labs Inc.

Most receivers will happily accept a 6 volt feed, and will pass that onto the the servos, most of which will be okay with 6 volts but there are quite a few which won't, not to mention any other devices hooked up, especially those which use microcontrollers without their own voltage regulation (try hooking up a PIC microcontroller to 6 volts and see how hot it gets, really quickly!)

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

No it's a normal rectifier diode. Have a read of this-

http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/diode.htm

You mean that by using a normal type diode we're looking for the normal .7-volt drop across the forward side of the diode to get the 5-volt down to a safer 4.3-volt?

David,

[Subculture]

In a nutshell, yes.