Tutorial SMC3 Arduino 3DOF Motor Driver and Windows Utilities

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When I do that it just flashes on then goes back off. I think it might be a wiring problem. Is there any way I could check that

I am now finding out that with my other motor and controller when I turn on the power supply it runs my motor through my motor controller no matter what

I did this but one of the solders may not be right

Just want to say a big THANK YOU to the creator of this interface. ( @RufusDufus) I have my motor working now for my seatbelt tensioner and it's mainly because of this utility and the experience of others who have recorded their efforts.
I fear I have now started down the rabbit hole, but hey, we all need a distraction from reality

I am running into a little problem that maybe one of you have seen. I keep burning up wiper motors on one axis only. I replaced the motor, IBT-2 and POT. My sim was running fine. And all of a sudden I keep killing motors. Prior to killing another I checked all wiring for security. I busted out the multimeter and verified off the IBT-2 that the voltage goes positive and negative based on SMC3 motion output all the way to +/- 12VDV. I verified my POT has feedback and follows up with motion in the proper direction (towards center line). I simulated SMC3 with only USB and not powered to watch the PWM signals and the failing motor side is the same as the good motor side. I do not want to take the good motor axis parts and swap as it works well. Could it be when max VDC loaded and hot the arduino Uno could be be failing? Hard to replicate. Could it be that I had PWM max and PWM rev both to 255 even though 150-180 works fine? I had Kp set to 350 and all else 0 or 1. I am also using cheap wiper motors for a dodge van.

The right motor room temperature. Maybe luke warm when dog fighting. The left gets warm, a lot warmer than the right. When it failed its just shorted and hot.

Mechanically they have plenty of advantage. I calculated them for 13 ft-lbs and built the platform around that. I am only using 1 inch levers with plenty of distance from the pivot points. Long story made short the dynamics should be good. It's just the left motor and the platform has a pretty much centered CG.

Just curious if anyone has seen this behavior.

Hey its me again. I have finally gotten to the point where I need to connect Simtools and smc3 and I did it through the serial interface and nothing happened when I went to output testing. I'm not a simtools expert an this is my first time using it so if anyone could offer some guidance it would be greatly appreciated

A big issue I had that is not explicitly written but is talked about. Tuning center must capture your maximum in game travels. I did not do this and read about it. Once I did this my sim started working. May or may not be your issue.

Is your arduino actively connected to SMC3 utility? Can you get potentiometer feedback (green line on screen)?

My arduino does work with smc3 I spent a lot of time setting those up. How do you find your in game max travel limits? I am not at my sim rn but I will post pictures later

See above post. Click tools tab. Click tuning center. Then capture in game movement. Ensure the plug-in is active and on.

These are all my settings. I did end up getting all my in game settings too