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Subject: 
Re: Resets
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:37:35 GMT
Original-From: 
Fred G. Martin <fredm@media.&spamcake&mit.edu>
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Is it possible that your battery is simply discharged? Does the board
exhibit the problem when you try driving the previous motors that did
not give you a problem?

Regarding the charge light on the serial board, are you sure that the
charge rate switch is in Normal mode? Th e charge LED never lights in
Zap mode.

-Fred

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This message was composed using Articulate Systems' PowerSecretary,
a Macintosh-based speech-to-text dictation system.
Please forgive any sloppiness in the formatting. Thanks. -Fred



In your message you said:

Hi.  My board was working fine until I hooked up some different motors to
it today.  It seems that whenever I try to drive the motors the low
battery light lights up and the board gets reset.  I checked the battery
and it reads 8.4V before and while the motors are running.  Also, when I
plug the board into the serial board, the charge light on the serial
board doesn't light up anymore.  Any ideas?  Maybe a solder came loose
somewhere.  TIA.

-John




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  Re: Resets
 
Actually, when I first tried the new motors, I was able to use them for a while. It wasn't until I went to download a different program that it started happening. That's what's confusing me. Is it possible that the L293D is burned or something like (...) (29 years ago, 18-Mar-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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  Resets
 
Hi. My board was working fine until I hooked up some different motors to it today. It seems that whenever I try to drive the motors the low battery light lights up and the board gets reset. I checked the battery and it reads 8.4V before and while (...) (29 years ago, 18-Mar-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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