[SO-101] Calibration after servo replacement for educators schools (beginner)

What is your minimum safe checklist after replacing an SO-101 servo so the arm can go back into class or lab use without hidden calibration problems?

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A frequent SO-101 maintenance question is what happens after a servo swap: the arm powers on again, but nobody is fully confident the geometry and zero positions are still correct.

How are you recalibrating SO-101 after replacing a servo, especially in classrooms where the next user may not be the person who did the repair?

Please share how you verify zero position, safe first motion, and what minimum checks are required before the arm goes back into class use.

If you reply, include one exact post-replacement symptom and one exact calibration or validation step that solved it.

Module: SO-101 · Audience: educators-schools · Type: question

Tags: so-101, servo-replacement, calibration, maintenance

Comment 1

The best replies here explain how a repaired arm is validated before another person uses it. That handoff detail matters a lot in schools.

Comment 2

If a short post-repair checklist caught an offset or bad orientation, share it. Searchers often want exactly that workflow.

Comment 3

It is also useful to say what you consider a safe first motion after repair rather than jumping straight to a full demo.