360 Degree Servo Mod | Flite Test

Free your servos from their degree limits! Continuous rotation servos spin freely and let your imagination skyrocket.

[ghall]

I love when you guys actually get down to the technical detailed stuff! More videos like this please!

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[williammoses]

I've repaired the gears on a dozen servos. When my brain loses its short term memory function I will open up another servo to use as a model so the gears go in correctly.
I have an ancient copy of Radio Control Model magazine with an article on how to do this. Peter's explanation is just as useful. Practice on an old standard servo; they're bigger, hence easier to work on.
Nice job on an arcane subject.

[websitesthatneedanem]

Finally a video that shows step by step!

[habiks]

Instead of centering the potentiometer, remove it and use 2 same valued resistors instead.

[MohitDewan]

This was the most awesome video in recent times from FliteTest.

[Morpheus]

Thanks at FT! Just rewatching this episode and I'm very glad it is explained with all the details!

[sethwojciechowski]

best episode yet, ive been looking for an easy way of doing this without buying anything

[thqp]

I know this video is old, but I did this mod to my 360 servo, it spins for maybe 3-4 seconds, then slows down to a crawl.
There is no grinding in the gears, and the potentiometer is properly centered.
I use one of those cheap 30A brushed ESC's paired with a DUMBORC X4 radio/receiver combo, and a 7.2V battery.

[Teach_EM]

So much easier than soldering on some resistors, thanks for the video!

[EdwardChew]

Cant be used for 360 pan tilt since it doesnt stop once you go to either one direction

[hbunnie]

This was a lot different from the normal videos.... fantastic... LOVE it .. good hobby tips.... Thank You

[honestview]

I am making a camera slider with a continuous servo and a servo tester.
Q. is there any way I can make it stop or change direction when it reaches the other end?
of course I can Wire it so that there is contact on the end of the route, or place a button which it will touch and press, but what signal should it output?

[albertodomenech]

How would you modify the servo to spin 2-3 turns only in each direction?. Like a sail winch servo may be. Using the servo limit or travel adjustment. ?. Any help is appreciated
thanks all before hand

[EEMtube]

nice tutorial again! As engineer you should distinguish between '360 deg' vs 'contin. rotat.' It is not the same. A 280 deg. tutorial based on common servo would be great!

[mattlarracas]

How am I suppose to control the rotation of the servo on a transmitter?

[sajivshah]

On the 9 gram are u supposed to put glue only on the brass shaft or on the moving circular base too?

[dop]

Those seem better for use as MIDI controlers rather than CAD CAMM CNCS you have any ideas on how to hack into the potentiometer part and make it so you can get that value. To the microcontroller?

[phillipspellman]

Is there a way to do this and get nice speed control? the way you have done it would only give speed control when the input is not outside the P band for the PID control (or the equivalent). It would also vary with load.

Perhaps there is something you could replace the pot with? that gives a resistance proportional to the shaft speed?

[publicname]

Do they sell servos that are already modified in this way?