Re: Stall and Control box
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Great report...when you told the group, the problem was cured.
There is the joke about going to the Dr office and ... everyone knows that one.?
Perhaps all your plugging and unplugging cleaned some slight oxidation off the optical encoder connections...so the gemini is better able to sense that the motor really was turning not really Stalled.??
Anyway... Glad your problems went away magically!?
Now send us some pretty pictures!
Michael
Chip Louie,
I agree with what you said.....And, believe me, I actually did all of those things before I broke out into the other controller box!?
Remember, I have been at this fifteen or twenty years or something. The battery inside, for instance, was at 3.06. The connector (the arm that presses against the battery) was a little weak, but I re-bent it and it was tighter. The cables were swapped back and forth, reversed, and cleaned......Removed the motors from the worm gears to find that the motors themselves still were really stalled (it was not a mechanical thing in the worm gears). All that stuff did not cure it. When it did not, I tried the other controller. But, as you said, do all the other things first.?
Apparently posting here did cure it. I was just out in the desert for two nights, and it worked fine, with no stalling.?
Go figure.?
We will see how it goes next time. I hate intermittent failures.?
Alex
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Michael Herman