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ROS Packages for Interbotix Rovers
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[Question]: How to charge the LoCoBot base #10

Closed EdSeymore closed 2 years ago

EdSeymore commented 2 years ago

Question

What are the important things to know about charging the base battery? Given: charge when the LED is amber. Q. Should the base be turned to ON? [seems to be required] Q. When is the battery fully charged? [one LED turns from amble to green quickly] Q. What does the green LED on the charger indicate? [seems to be on when every attached to power]

Robot Model

LoCoBot WX250 6 DOF [mobile_wx250s]

Operating System

n/a

Anything Else

Would like for this information to be included on https://www.trossenrobotics.com/docs/interbotix_xslocobots/getting_started/index.html

lukeschmitt-tr commented 2 years ago

The current mobile base of the LoCoBot is Yujin Robot's iClebo Kobuki. You can find its user guide here.

To answer your questions:

  1. The base does not need to be turned on when it is charging.
  2. The battery is fully charged when the Status LED is solid green.
  3. You are correct - the charger's LED is on when it is connected to power.

We will add some of this information to the documentation.

lukeschmitt-tr commented 2 years ago

We added some of this information to the new Getting Started > Basic Usage page.