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Servo mount for 2" horizontal blinds
by taz420nj
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Remix of Payloader's servo mount, customized to fit 2" Better Homes and Gardens horizontal blinds currently sold at Walmart. I have the CORDLESS version which is where my measurements came from, I'm honestly not sure if it will fit the corded version because I don't have any to measure. (For some odd reason the site keeps insisting on putting the gears as the remix source. The mount source from Payloader is https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1573867)
I found Payloader's original design trying to find a way to mount servos in my new blinds for automation. Unfortunately it seems that the tilt mechanism in these blinds is different from any of the other examples that people have posted over the years. The rod is low and centered, which means direct coupling to the servo shaft is impossible at any orientation which fits entirely inside the header (even if the mounting tabs on one end of the servo are cut off as one maker did), so an offset gear drive is required. It was exactly what I
I found Payloader's original design trying to find a way to mount servos in my new blinds for automation. Unfortunately it seems that the tilt mechanism in these blinds is different from any of the other examples that people have posted over the years. The rod is low and centered, which means direct coupling to the servo shaft is impossible at any orientation which fits entirely inside the header (even if the mounting tabs on one end of the servo are cut off as one maker did), so an offset gear drive is required. It was exactly what I
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