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Nybble's leg shakes after deep discharge
In Basic Assembly and Setup
Vitaly Bogdanov
Oct 13, 2019
In fact I cannot tell anything interesting. I gave the remote control to my daughters and they played with Nybble until it started moving abnormally. Only when they asked me to find out what happened I realized that the batteries are discharged. The cumulative voltage were about 5V. I recharged the batteries to 4.2V each but the cat started walking abnormally like backward legs doesn't work properly. I tried to re-calibrate the cat but one of the MG92B were shaking when the backward leg goes to the position which is orthogonal to the bottom (like on video). Only few steps in any direction and the servo works normally. I tried to find out whether it depends on the pin which is used to connect the servo so I exchanged two servos connections and used testServo.ino to check them. I found the servo connected to another pin works abnormally as well so it doesn't depend on Nybble board. But suddenly I found the second servo (MG90D ) doesn't move anymore and at the same time the tail started moving without stopping after cat is turned on. I rewrote the firmware, resetted the calibrations, updated the reflexes and recalibrated MPU and it stopped the tail. I disassembled the died MG90D servo and powered the engine from 3 AA batteries to check that it works. I measured input voltage on the servo PCB and it was about 7.8V. Finally I tried to replace the MG90D on the leg by the MG90D on the tail and found that it doesn't work either. I double checked the pin using a servo from another leg and found that the pin works. A long story but almost no output :-) I am almost sure that the discharge itself didn't kill the servos. But at least shaking of the MG92B started right after the discharge. May be I killed the MG90Ds accidentally moving them when they were powered but I tried not doing this. For me it looks like: I try to do something on the console, the servo starts rotating to the wrong position and stucks, I switch the power off, when I start the Nybble again the servo doesn't work. I am going to switch V_S back to V+, increase voltage to 6V using potentiometer (in fact I didn't realize that it is required reading assembling instructions) and check Nybble replacing the servos.
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