IamNoOne
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Hello, I am having issues with my EZ-B. I have gone through the Tutorials several times and I have even searched in YouTube to find help. But I can't find the answer, so Here I am. 1-My computer and my EZ-B connect on COM4 and the battery pack is full... 2-When I try to follow the steps in the Tutorial Videos nothing happens. 3-I connect the cables as follow; the brown wire to Grd pin; the red in the 5v pin and the orange color into the right pin marked Ext PWR. 4-About a minute or so into the process the EZ-B disconnects from the blue tooth and the White LED turns OFF.
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?! PLEASE HELP!
Thank you
Where are you plugging in your servo?
Try hooking it up like this:Yes connect just like he said. FYI that pin that is closest to the outer edge is the signal wire. The ext pwr label near the power led just refers to that particular row where the inner pin is ground and the outer one is power. No signal wire next to it so it's just a label for the row.
If you are sure the batteries are okay... feel the 2 black regulators and see if they are hot, when it turns off.
Also, do you have the EZ-B on a conductive surface?
Can you post a picture of the bottom of your EZ-B?
Does the status LED turn off when it's just sitting there not connected to anything?
Does ARC lock up when the LED turns off?
Are there any messages in the DEBUG window? (Add Control -> General -> Debug)
If you are connecting the servos etc. in correctly, how much do you have plugged in, and what is plugged in? It could possibly be drawing too much power and browning out?
Also, what are you using to power it? Type of battery, voltage, capacity etc? Are the voltage regulators getting hot?
Generally as much info as possible always helps diagnose.
ARC locking up and not re-connecting sounds like what happened to me when my batteries were dead, or near dead. As soon as it drew a current for the servos it would brown out.
I've had so many packs of dud AA batteries, even good name brand batteries, they are fine for TV remotes etc. but put a heavy load on them and they don't want to know.
What I would do is find an old AC adaptor for a DVD player or something similar that's between 5 and 17v and has the right connector on the end (and is wired the right way around, I should add) plug it in, add only 1 servo and check it works, that will rule in or out the batteries. I had an old DVD player which had the perfect power supply.
Weird. Mine must be an early production model. My EZ-B 3.0 is missing R1, C1 and D1 is connected differently. It worked though....well...until recently.
Are you using ARC in a virtual machine?
Does this happen if there are no servos or anything connected to the EZ-B? For example, can you...
a) disconnect all servos b) connect to EZ-B from ARC c) add servo Control, press config and set for D0 d) move the servo slider
Will it still disconnect?
From the debug message, i do not feel it is an issue with the EZ-B. If you were to send it back to us, i am confident it would work correctly. I'm curious of what you are experiencing...
maybe one of the servos is damaged and is causing the EZ-B to brown-out.
I'm kind of leaning toward #2
You would know if you are using a virtual machine, well I'd like to think so. Running Windows and EZB within a different OS (or even Windows) using Virtual Box, Parallels, VMWare, QEMU, Windows Virtual PC...