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Re: How could I tell if I'd cooked the motor controllers ?
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Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:29:01 GMT
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I presume you did all the usual things:  Clean the RCX terminals, try other
motors, check for unusual friction in the drivetrain (like, something is out
of adjustment) ...etc?

Jerry

In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Jason S. Mantor writes:
We had an informal Robo-Sumo thing at my work place tonight and I'm
wondering if I killed my RCX.  My 'bot had two gearmotors on A and two more
on C to drive the wheels.  Could they have drawn enough current when the
'bot was stalled to harm the RCX ?  It was stalled (no wheels spin) and I
could hear the PWM buzz.  Even with fresh batteries it crawls now : (  Any
thoughts ?



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  How could I tell if I'd cooked the motor controllers ?
 
We had an informal Robo-Sumo thing at my work place tonight and I'm wondering if I killed my RCX. My 'bot had two gearmotors on A and two more on C to drive the wheels. Could they have drawn enough current when the 'bot was stalled to harm the RCX ? (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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