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Welcome Back

Welcome Back DJ, We have all missed you more than you will ever know. So many questions. I see you were busy last night and only gave up after answering a bunch of recent forum questions. I will go easy on you and only ask one at a time starting with: synthiam.com/Community/Questions/183 I know alot of us are having the "gets stuck" problem and so far the only solution is to reboot everything. It happens alot and a solution needs to be found. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Welcome back from the Bookmaker!!


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How do you delete a message if you don't want it. I started this message by mistake and I do not see any way out after you hit save. This is an edit.

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Synthiam
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Thank you for the welcoming back:) ... My summer with family was fantastic! Spent most of it sitting on the beach and playing with my nephews. Glad to be back though! I prefer robots over kids;)

You can edit, but there is no way to delete. I have never really liked the delete option in forums, personal preference:)

If you don't want your post, simply edit it and put some text in there like "I DELETED MY POST YO"

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Thanks DJ, I appreciate you getting back to me on that however how about the "gets stuck" issue. Regards, Bookmaker

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Does "getting stuck" mean it loses connection and keeps driving?

If so, the last state of the ez-b will continue if the connection is dropped. I originally had planned on a heartbeat method to determine a connection/disconnection on the ez-b side. But doing so would affect performance of real user commands.

Considering i rarely run into that scenario, I felt quick response time is more important:D

Even though we distribute the 5 AA battery pack, it's not that great for lots of servos or motors with an hbridge. 5 AA's isn't much juice, really. In the PDF manual I recommand larger amperage battery supplies.

Omnibot, for example uses a 6 volt 4 amp wet cell that came from a home alarm backup battery. It's heavy, but powerful!

Other options are Li-on laptop batteries, from old laptops. They usually have built in charging circuits

Or cordless drill batteries. They're usually great too!

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Thanks DJ, I kind of came to the same conclusion. I am going to run my drive motors from the H-Bridge off of my Li-po 11.1 V 2.2 amp battery. Not using the +5 form the EZ-B should lighten up the load and hopefully resolve the issue. Thanks again, Roger the Bookmaker

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Welcome back Mr Sures.

Ok so you don't like anyone to delete a post. That's fair and its understandable.

Could you fix or explain something for me?

I read the forum....find a cool topic. push the reply button and it makes me sign in. No problem I type out my reply and check it change it or make it as close to not sounding like a stupid douche as i can and hit the Reply button again. It makes me sign in again loosing all that i wrote and start all over....

could you please change the amount of time we stay logged in?

Does anyone else have this problem?

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The timeout is set for 15 minutes...... Hunt and pecker, are we? hahaha

How about I put a checkbox to keep you logged in with a cookie. That okie?

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Hey BRW you're not the only one losing posts, I think I've had to re-write at least 5 posts cause I usually post a lot of text and it takes me some time to edit it as well. It's a shot to the heart every time I loose a post. Sometimes I just give up on posting. I don't know about this 15 minute limit either, maybe DJ overclocked his server and 15 minutes = 4 minutes real time:).

Just for this forum I have gotten into the weird habit of selecting all and copying before I ever hit the reply button.

I am so down with a "keep me logged in" cookie! Thx DJ!