This question is directed to anyone running dynamixels. I am wondering if any of you have attempted or found a way to override the thermal cut off. I've looked thru the Dynamixel wizard and the documentation is lacking to say the least. In a perfect world the ability to turn off these safeties would be ideal.
I'm trying to either override the thermal, default is 70 deg c temp can be set (0-99 deg c) and turn it off OR override that torque goes to 0 when temperature reaches over the thermal cut off.
The Alans I have on the other side of the world are thermal shutting down do to a hot environment. We are going to be working to cool the area but it would be better to override the protections (I'm sure voiding the warranty) or the ability to change the settings in software.
The Dynamixel Wizard will allow you to set thermal cut off anywhere from 0-99 deg c and change the torque settings but I do not have access directly to Alan and would be better to have a software solution. Right now Alans have to be turned off and the motors to cool down for 20-30 min to reset the thermal and bring them back online.
An example of a fix would be adding two buttons to the EZ Robot Dynamixel plug in so one could change the thermal settings and or change the torque setting if thermal limit is reached. I assume those could be added as we can turn on and off the leds, rename Ids and change baud rates within the plug in.
Any help would be appreciated.
you can see the settings for the thermal shut down at 5:05 on this video.
Follow the tutorial on the plugin page for the dynamixel servo here: https://synthiam.com/redirect/legacy?table=plugin&id=39
Sorry guys for being a big pain, but with school and others projects it's hard to focus. I do appreciate all of your help believe me much love to all thanks again, Mike.
There's a step by step tutorial that you can follow here: https://synthiam.com/redirect/legacy?table=plugin&id=39
Every single mouse click and step is documented in that above link.
To mr. DJ Sures, I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart because I have a heavy workload from school and work. I hope you know I'm not lying to you, but with the load that I'm carrying and going into my last year school it's a big burden on me. I love Robotics and everything about it ever since in young child. That's why I'm so grateful that a person of your magnitude and intelligence have came in and shown many of us a different way of programming robots. I really do thank you once again for taking up your time and others to go step-by-step on helping me building towards my goals yours truly, Mike.
Glad I can help, mike! Thanks for the kind words
May I make a suggestion? I think its important to add the functions of the Utility section to the tutorial. This is where I got "Stuck", when working with them for the first time.
First its a good idea with a new dynamixel to change the baud rate on the first page to 57,600 to match the servo out of the box.
Then in utilities I changed the ID, But i would forget to change the "V" port on the same page to match the new ID, and could not figure out why I couldn't change the baud rate on the dynamixel.
Then when i figured that out, I changed the baud Rate I forgot to change the Baud on the settings page to match it. So alot of errors on the utilities page can cause less hair on your head.
Thank you again Fxrst.
I'm not new to the dynamixel servos on which I bought the kit back in 2015, and knowing ez was coming out. I set those servos in the roboplus. I hate the cm530, and I think or know the ezb4 has much killer potential in it.