Servo motor conversion

This is a simple mod that i made that should take you no longer than 5 minutes. It allows you to turn a servo into a motor that rotates a full 360 instead of 100 degrees. This is very useful because motors come in handy more than servos so take your servos and turn them into motors!

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[Furthen]

Thank you thank you thank you. :) Gonna do this tomorrow.

[Halo2maniaccc]

No problem, just make sure the little nub doesn't move.

The motor may want to move a slight amount as vibrations might move the nub a bit. However under a load the shaft won't turn because its not enough force to spin the shaft with a load. Without a load it might spin a bit.

Soon I will see if I can solder in a resistor in place of the internal potentiometer so that it won't matter if the nub moves.

[Furthen]

Ok, it's a futaba servo, actually two.

Yeah I have a guide in swedish regarding the same thing as the video.. and there it tells me to shift the potentiometre to CENTER POSITION, does it mean that I should just rotate it halfway between MIN and MAX or do I have to follow your guide?

These are just some questions that popped up. Thankful for answer!

[Halo2maniaccc]

Yep it has to be in center position which is between the minimum and maximum values of the potentiometer. Another way to do it is just juice up the motor and turn the little nub until the motor stop's spinning.

This guide does turn the potentiometer to the center position although I didn't specifically say center position in the video I just said turn it until the motor stops (same thing).

I hope this helps!

[dXMETRIXb]

what's a potentameter? Do you mean potentiometer?

[deadlyfalcon89]

it should... no real good reason it shouldn't. Only problem might be that you may have to remove the actual potentiometer and clip off the nub yourself. Much easier with Vex since they make an identically-cased motor and if you have the spare parts from a motor you bought you can do this to a servo.

[deadlyfalcon89]

I'm gonna go with "some other odd problem"... without restarting my browser or anything it's working now... whatever. sorry about that

[Halo2maniaccc]

The video is working fine on my end as well as many other computers that I have tested it on. Try watching it from other computers without logging in. It could be youtube, your isp, or some other odd problem.

[skl1cent]

hey, this doesnt work with all servos does it?