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Hacking a servo with fixed angle of rotation and change it into a continuous rotation servo
Open four screws to remove the back cover pop out the electronics.
Front cover will also come off
The Gear assembly looks like this
The pin (as seen on the top of the left-most gear) stops the servo from moving beyond a point.
Take this gear out
Now our job is to remove the pin
Another method can be to file the pin off
We are good to go. Make sure the small bearing is in proper place in the case
and insert the gear n the top cover as shown below (orientation does not matter
Note that the potentiometer (Component marked as B502) is locked using four plastic locks
Open these locks. It does not matter even if you break these locks as we are not going to use them again
and the potentiometer can now be pulled out
we are going to de-solder this potentiometer from the board. Care should be taken in this step. Use of third hand is recommended.
Here is the removed potentiometer that we no longer need for this servo. You can use this in some other project!
and the board without the potentiometer
Solder two 1K resistors in series with a center tap and solder them onto the board as shown.
Press it down so that it is flat on the board but make sure it is not touching any other electronics on the board
Place everything back nicely
assemble the front and back covers with care and tighten the screws
You are done!