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Re: So what happend with our camera?

sorry for not being clear!

When i say "Camera not working" I mean no data being recived according to our programming teams code and what it displayed in terminal. The programming team was able to force the tracking code to attempt to search without data so we knew our servos were physically and eletrically fine.

I did check every connection every chance i got, but to no avail. I even went so far as to slightly bending the pins of the TTL port to give us a secure and good conducting connection. Internal break is possible, but im not positive, ill probably end up running my DMM on each wire again and see what i can find next time i get up to the school.

According to the documentation i read, setting disable sets all the pwm outputs to 127 (Nutral to the victors). But i could be mistaken, has anyone tried running a Servo with just +5v and ground connected? I was thinking it might be interferance but now im curious, I think i have some spair pinheaders around here and some servos, so ill give that a go tommrow.

Im curious about your single servo movment. What was the other servo doing? Do you happen to know what PWM you had them connected to? This sounds very similar to what was going on with ours, i think 1 servo was acting how you described during programming, and both servos were acting that way during disabled.
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