Technical Parameters: Voltage: DC5-10V power supply Communication Interface: IIC 16-way steering gear control Size:25*61mm
Product features: The PCA9685 chip is wrapped in the center of the board Power input terminal Green power indicator In the 4 groups of 3-pin connector to facilitate the insertion of 16 servo motor (servo motor plug slightly wider than 0.1 ") The polarity of the reverse polarity is input on the terminal block
Cascade design: V + line to place a large capacitor, the maximum external input voltage depends on the 10V 1000uf capacitor All PWM output lines have a 220 ohm series resistor protection and can easily drive LED
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Needs More Quality Control; Received Partial Refund
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2018
Edit: The seller contacted me and offered a partial refund; therefore, I updated my previous 2-star review to 4 stars.Original review:This board was horribly built- the PCA9685 was soldered to the wrong pads. After removing and re-soldering, it works fine.
With a project coming up that requires 18 servos using a nano controller, I ordered this unit. I have only used it single so I do not know how well it works chained but single operation has been excellent. I tested with 6 servos on the various outputs and the results were excellent. Code was easy with the available libraries and the control was easy to set up. I could not see a visible lag in the controls. Well made and easy to use, I recommend it if you have more than 2 servos to control. Plus shifting the power to the servo onto the unit saves the controller from being overtaxed.
I have a raspberry pi connected to a robotic arm made of servo motors and this works well for controlling all of them. The pi cant really handle multiple PWM signals at once so this was needed.
I had no problems setting this up using the Adafruit_PWMServoDriver library. Follow the Adafruit tutorial and you’ll have this up and running in no time. In my uploaded video I used an Arduino Nano compatible board and connected pin A4 for SDA and pin A5 for SCL using the Adafruit library. I had more problems with the cheap servos I bought than I did with the driver board but all 16 channels work just fine. Great product and easy to use.
The headers were soldered by some sloppy/rushed/underpaid worker so they're not straight but they work. Contrary to my expectations, it's not suitable to drive rgb leds because the pwm pulses are happening on the cathode (GND) side instead of the anode or (VCC) side, but rgb leds typically share a common cathode. Maybe I missed something but there's not too many ways to hook this up and the pwm row definitely acts as a sink.
The large V+ connector does not work as there seems to be a broken trace in the board. There are two other V+ connection points but they are too small for wires that are rated for the required Amps.
works well... accidentally only provided 1v and was sending still pwm signals. after some time i sent 3.1v and it worked great. it does show up in just a bag so be careful in what you order with it as it may crush it.
The headers were not held firmly in place when they were soldered making it impossible to connect the three-pin connectors from the servo motors. Some bending with my pliers solved the problem. At that point it worked perfectly.
If you wrote some Arduino code to drive a servo you know how hard that can be. This little circuit runs up to 16 at once, and the example code is easy to follow. I recommend this product.
I got this going fairly easily. Just look up the data sheet on-line with the ic number. Very simple operation. Just send I2C address then data pattern. It works ok. But the pins that are "Input/Output" do not have a Data Direction Register. You can set a line high and the pull-up is weak, so they can then be pulled low and read back allowing use as inputs. This is not hugely aesthetically pleasing. As outputs they really need to be used as low-side if you want any oomph.
Used with A Raspberry Pi to control and power four SG90 Tower servos. Established an I2C connection straight away and was able to start moving servos in just 5 minutes.
Only flaw is the terminal blocks have a little trouble grabbing and holding the wires for the external power supply.