How to Calculate Required Torque for Mini Servo on Slider?

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how to calculate the required torque for the mini servo to move the load on slider?
how to calculate the required torque for the mini servo to move the load on slider?
 

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Summary:: how to calculate the required torque for the mini servo to move the load on slider?

how to calculate the required torque for the mini servo to move the load on slider?
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What you have is a highly offset slider-crank mechanism.

Are you concerned with simply holding the slider against a load, or do you want to accelerate the slider? If you want to accelerate the slider, then at what rate? You need to give us a bit more to work with.
 
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What you have is a highly offset slider-crank mechanism.

Are you concerned with simply holding the slider against a load, or do you want to accelerate the slider? If you want to accelerate the slider, then at what rate? You need to give us a bit more to work with.
I want to move the load (it is actually a heater) that was mounted on the slider at 0.5m/s either to the left or right.
 
A constant velocity on the velocity will require a variable crank speed. Are you prepared to control crank speed to vary in a specific way?

I hope you are aware that the slider moves only over a limited range. As you approach the ends of the range, the velocity must approach zero in order to reverse. Is this satisfactory for your purposes?