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Re:Ask HN: I need powerful and very fast, but silent servos.... by ComputerGuru on Saturday July 10, 2010 @02:28PM (#1504104)
You can't. Once your device is switched-off, you can't know what position it will start up in. The easiest option is to have an initialization routine that will move the motor to a known position. For instance, move it all the way clockwise until it jams (assuming there's a limited range of motion) or until it signals a button, whatever that it has reached a position. This is known as calibration or zeroing.
Re:Ask HN: I need powerful and very fast, but silent servos.... by jeb on Saturday July 10, 2010 @02:31PM (#1504109)
What I mean is that the item it is turning is marked, so I can detect it's position. Using infrared perhaps?
Re:Ask HN: I need powerful and very fast, but silent servos.... by pingswept on Saturday July 10, 2010 @10:07PM (#1504758)
You can get motors with encoders built into them that are very, very accurate. You can decode their pulses into position with a quadrature decoder like the HCTL-2020.