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Re: Help PLEASE, robot dies while turning.....

Define "cease to function". Is the robot still powered on? Do you have comm? Is your main breaker tripped (that would take A LOT)? Is it no longer responding to signal? Is it pausing while it attempts to make turns?

Are all six of your wheels on the ground or 4?

There's always the simple stuff: Have you checked your wiring + to + and - to -? Are the proper breakers in place on the PDB? Are your motors all spinning the correct direction?



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Originally Posted by Chadfrom308 View Post
We had this problem on our testing mechanum bot. We figured that we gave so much power to the wheels that when we wanted to change direction, It took up too much power and shut down. I don't exactly know how we fixed it but we eventually did; I think we put everything on which fixed it

Were your wheels mounted right? You could have had them on the wrong side and (speculating) were stalling the motors because the wheel force vectors were canceling out.

Last edited by protoserge : 07-02-2013 at 07:59.