I was using a 2 dof dagu arm to hold some junk lying arround my desk (empty cans) when it stop responding i touch and it was remarkly hot. I was running it from a dagu spider controller . I am suspecting ask was asking it to close when i could not anymore. So my question. Is there a way to tell if your forcing your servo remotely?
I have never done this, or, seen it done, but,
you might try checking the current draw. You could add some form of pressure sensor, and, have a cutoff for a set pressure.
The servo is a Dagu S05NF
The servo is a Dagu S05NF and i opened it up and checked and the motor fine so are the gear, but the thing that turn only 180 (i guess some king of encoder) is melted and now wont turn. Also the sticker the servo fall off because of the heat.
You burned it up pretty
You burned it up pretty good.
Don’t despair. You can try to modify the servo for continuous rotation (if the rest of the electronics aren’t fried). Instructions abound on the Internet.
If there is too much physical damage or the electronics are toasted, you can still use the servo as a nice little gear motor. Simply bypass the electronics all together and just use the motor and gear train.
Good luck!