Temperature for Gyroscope

[nighterfighter]

Originally Posted by Owen Busler

On my arduino i accidentally wired 5v to ground and ground to 5v on an ultrasonic sensor and it got really hot X_X oops. I hope that isnt your problem.

I doubt that's their problem, because if they did wire it backwards, I don't think you would be able to read the gyro data for very long, if at all.

Sorry to hear about your ultrasonic sensor though. Did it survive or is it toasted?

[wt200999]

Originally Posted by nighterfighter

I doubt that's their problem, because if they did wire it backwards, I don't think you would be able to read the gyro data for very long, if at all.

Sorry to hear about your ultrasonic sensor though. Did it survive or is it toasted?

I would say it is possible that if the gyro was damaged, all you get is noise (assuming the sensor is analog) since the roboRIO will read something. And since the roboRIO just integrates this value it would take off and may even look like 'drift' if you assume the gyro is working. This possibility does match the original description, especially since it gets hot 'seconds after turning it on'.

When you say the gyro gets hot, how hot are you talking about?