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.
Question, if I hook up the dynamixel servos to the 6 pin hub how can I tell with dynamixel servos are in each slot? Because I'm using ezb servos on the ezb4.
Dynamixel servos are identified by their unique id. Each servo has a unique id. That id corresponds with the virtual port.
So dynamixel id 5 is ARC v5
The documentation for the plugin explains in more detail. Find the documentation here: https://synthiam.com/redirect/legacy?table=plugin&id=39
Thanks again Mr. Sures.
Hello there, I'm finally out for the semester, and now I have the chance to work on my robot. I'm using hobby servos and Dymanixel servos. Ok I've hooked everything up dynamixel servos in 0,2,8, and10. The hobby servos 11,12,13,and 14, but only the hobby servos move. All of the servos when the ezb4 is on the servos as a whole doesn't move,but the dynamixel servos are not responding at all on which I've done everything that I've read in the detail plugins, but now don't know. Also have a 3pin adapter hub.
You have to connect the dynamixel servos in a chain from the specified port. On the ezb v4, it’s the hardware uart. Check the manual for the dynamixel plugin. The IDs of the dynamixel servos correspond with the Vx ids in ARC.

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Did you read the tutorial ?
The Dynamixel servos are chained together and connected to a single digital port on EZB (D5) or IotTiny.

This is another connection.