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sunfounder / SunFounder_PiCar-V

Smart Video Car Kit V2.0 for Raspberry Pi from SunFounder
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Servos not working (Configure to 90 degrees worked, but no longer works) #68

Closed ctjoumas closed 3 years ago

ctjoumas commented 3 years ago

During installation, I was able to run the picar servo-install and it moved each servo just fine. I completed the installation and when I got the client/server up and running and went to calibrate, the commands were received fine by the server (no errors), but nothing moved. I did notice I may have had some of the servo wires in the wrong places, so I fixed that and re-ran, and still nothing. I then went back just to check the picar servo-install again since that worked, and that no longer works.

Could having the servo's wired wrong when running installation have done something to the servo's? I'd think that shouldn't matter as they'd still "move", but just not in the manner you'd expect.

Are there any troubleshooting steps I can take?

Thanks, Chris

ctjoumas commented 3 years ago

Ok - so it must have been a battery issue. Somehow one of my batteries went from 100% to dead so I didn't think to check it until I ran out of options.