[sudo-discuss] robot repair

[Marc Juul]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> omg i think i figured out what's wrong
>
> it's not throwing errors for servos 1 and 2 of the robot, it's referring
> to the two motors that are not connected, they were part of the assembly
> line.  We actually have the controllers for both, they were in that huge
> metal box I put on the curb (after taking them out) but we only have one of
> the motors and anyway...
>

Oh what? But doesn't it only list axis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6? If 1 and 2 are
the extra axes then shouldn't there be axis 7 and 8 as well?


on page 28 of http://servo-repair.com/documents/yaskawa/CACR-SR.pdf
> (labeled page 23 in the document) it shows the pins of the connector for
> the errors we're getting.
>
> I think if i short the right pins on the connectors, the errors will go
> away and it will think the two missing servo controllers are happy, even
> though we don't actually want to hook them up to anything.
>
> unfortunately, reconfiguring the ERC controller to know that it doesn't
> have two extra motors would require changing the EPROM, and even if we had
> a ROM burner handy I wouldn't know what to change.
>
> Does anyone want to play with the robot arm?
>

Uh. Yes. I have some work-work but maybe I can sneak away for a bit in a
bit.

-- 
marc/juul


>
> -jake
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