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Once again, my barely used ez-b is overheating. All the wiring has been checked, the ez-b is sitting on the back of the battery case so no shorts can happen, and all the wiring is tied together held away from the ez-b. I have the following plugged in: 4 standard servos 2 continues rotation servos 1 ping radar 1 camera(hacked)
What could be causing it? Its been working fine before! confused
Note: with out even connecting the ez-b to the computer its heatsink heats up to untouchable temperature. Not even moving the servos!
I tested twice, the second time with my fan blowing on it and still nearly burnt myself.
Update: Something is very wrong. I tested again and its only the one heatsink closest to the power plug.
Have you tried it with nothing connected? Have you added each item one by one to see if that makes any difference? What power supply are you using?
While the wiring may look OK there could still be a problem with a servo, the ping sensor or the camera. Connection to the computer is irrelevant, if there is a problem with the wiring, a short on the board or a short in any of the accessories it will get hot.
i to had a problem with over heating i fixed it by not powering the cam from the ezb
Ok. Wolfie I think ill try not powering the camera off the ez-b.
Rich, ill try runnin g the ez-b without anything connected, and then without the camera.
With nothing plugged in it didn't heat up at all. will try with everything but camera.
Wolfie, your a genius. it is the camera. I left the camera unplugged and it doesn't heat up anymore.
If I disconnect the cameras power, but leave the signal wire could it still turn on and off the camera with the ez-b?
Charging is possible to do normally.
What I don't get is I wired it up perfectly, but it's causing the ez-b to overheat. What could be the problem?
when you power it from the bourd its charging the bat and powering the cam at the same to but i have not been able to check on its amp drew yet so not to sure as to why it heats so much
intime i will workout a kinda fix for it have a few ideas in mind