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Re: How should we wire the photoswitchs?

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Originally Posted by koo_04 View Post
Okay, so I am here with rsisk. When we got to the robot and turned it on, poof! The sensors were giving me an orange light, then went green with distance. Like it is supposed to. After being excited and happy. I notice that after a power restart of the robot, they stopped going orange. Any ideas or reasons why? Nothing had changed from the previous weekend when we first wired them up and nothing changed after giving it that power restart. I am completely stumped on what is going on. No shorts, no PWM connections. Just the power is hooked up.
Did you calibrate the sensors? If not, maybe it's just changing light conditions or where you have the robot located.

Calibrate the sensors on an appropriate section of floor after putting in fresh batteries.
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