Motors not responding #2

Troubleshooting
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Having an issue getting the motors to work. Everything is plugged in correctly and the firmware is up to date but when I try to calibrate the system I get nothing. I keep receiving a port 3 timeout, Any advice would be much appreciated.

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Does the motor test fail?

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This is often due to one of several things:

  • the firmware has not been successfully loaded to the Arduino
  • the Arduino IDE still has control of the serial port (quit the Arduino IDE when the firmware is done loading)
  • the wrong serial port is chosen in GC
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isn’t this also commonly caused by plugging the power into the arduino instead
of into the motor shield

David Lang

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Plugging power into the wrong board causes the situation where the connection is stable
(not timing out) but the motors don’t move.

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I appreciate all the quick responses. It looks like it was an issue with the firmware downloading on my PC. After about the third try i was finally able to get the motors running for the calibration test. Thanks again!

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