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Question SMC3 not working? (YouTube)

Discussion in 'SimTools compatible interfaces' started by JeepGunner82, Jun 2, 2017.

  1. JeepGunner82

    JeepGunner82 Member Gold Contributor

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    I am still unable to get this guy to work. In the video, I go step by step down the list there but to my dismay, the pesky motor just wont go!

    Surely there is something I'm missing here?
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    In your video if you look at the top left of the SMC3Utils you can see the three motors listed and beside each is a button saying OFF. You need to click them to turn on the motors.... but first make sure the POTs are somewhere near center (ie green line near middle of graph).

    They have been switched off for safety because the POT feedback went outside the limits.
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    Hey thanks for the reply! If you go to 3.55, I did realize the motor was off and the limits were triggering it off, so reduced to max. Is there anything in the code other than comment out the mode to make adjustments to?
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    No nothing else in the code should need to be modified if you started with the original code posted in this thread.

    It looks like the SMC3 is running ok and trying to drive the motors - I can see the yellow PWM level is changing as required. The POT feedback seems noisy when it suddenly jumps to maximum - this is not normal. Maybe a lose wire or something not connected correctly. Do you have GND connected between POT and Arduino? and GND between Arduino and H-Bridge? Try to keep POT wires away from Motor wires.
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    can you show the test code that made it work... is it still wired the same as with test code?
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    Hello JeepGunner,
    Any luck finding out the issue?
    I am stuck on the same situation.