Just replaced the caps, and it now turns on and everything runs, EXCEPT it’s spinning in circles!
What did I do wrong when I reassembled it?
@twee, is it turning always on the same side? Verify that both wheel motors on each side have that magnetic disk on the back of the motor. Make certain that they are both well plugged in.
It starts, move forward a little bit, pauses, rotates a little, pauses, and then just keeps repeating it. Always to the left. I do feel the left wheel turning on its own.
@twee, is the wheel turning by itself when you are lifting the robot up or when its on the ground? What could also be causing this is the encoder for the left wheel, the robot can’t detect if the right wheel goes faster than the left wheel so that is why it is spinning. It could either be the motor in the left wheel giving out or it can also be the right wheel that the encoder is defective.
Thank you for your responses. Is there an easy way for a co.ete novice to test this, or should I just start replacing parts? Could it be the. Bumper sensor? I cleaned it, could I have broken a connection?
It worked perfectly prior to my replacing the caps.
@twee, the bumper sensors will have the robot turn around in front of objects when bumping into them, if they are defective when the robot bumps it will still try and go forward, or if the bumper sensor is stuck the robot will not turn in circles it will back up and state an bumper stuck error.
This really seems to be a problem with the wheel encoder because the robot does not seem to detect when one wheel is turning, have you had a wheel stuck error?