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Exact same problem
Posted by Justin Stiltner.

Student on team #388, Epsilon, from Grundy High School and NASA, American Electric Power, Town of Grundy.

Posted on 4/2/2000 10:23 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Eliminating a few other things... posted by Jerry Eckert on 4/2/2000 9:51 PM MST:



We had the exact same problem only with our arm we would start the match fine, the arm would come down and we would get our load of balls then as I back up to dump the arm would just go crazy!! it would start extending and retracting and bouncing up and down like you had picked up the joystick and were shaking the stick side to side and it was trying to lower itself which was raising the front of our bot off the ground which it shouldent have been able to do but it was ignoring the contact switch and woulent respond to ANY joystick command. I could still drive fine but the arm would not respond. this happend 2 times at the same station on the same side (the area controller was on channel 9 if your interested) and if we hit the reset button about 3 times it would work for about 5 seconds then start doing it agin, and it was drawing soo much current that the low battery light was comming on with a fresh battery. we never resolved this problem and it dident happen on the other side of that alliance station. It is a mistry to me, the crew and everyone else we asked. Does anybody have any suggestions? the arm has 2 van door motors on it and they are running on 2 victor blue speed controllers. we also switched the joystick that controlled the arm but we were never on that side agin so we couldent tell if that was the problem or not.

Justin Stiltner
Team 388
Grundy Va,


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