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Surface vs. Inline
Hey dIsEaSe,
Surface resistors are used on the actual PCB. A few people are replacing two tiny surface mount resistors on the PCB that feed the control signal wires. I think they were using a 4.7Kohm for that.
The inline resistors are spliced between the sensor pot on the servo and the control wires, in particular the orange and brown wires. It results in the exact same result as the surface mount resistors and is the easiest of the two types of mods. Also because the existing resistors on the PCB are left in place, that is why the smaller value of resistor is used for the inline. Let's say the existing surface mount resistors are 2KOhm, (Just guessing here as I did not ohm them out with the meter) but to get full throw of the servo you need 4.7Kohm, so you have two choices, either replace the existing resistors with higher value ones, or just add to the existing.
In this case, on my car using AWD, I found that using 2.7Kohm resistors inline, allowed the exact throw of the servo that I needed. hope this helps!
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