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It's alive!!!!

Everything is working now. It was simply a voltage issue.

Ok, even more progress. It looks like the main battery supply min voltage was set to 18v. I've been able to lower it to 6v with roboclaw.py. I think this was my issue all along and misunderstood that setting min voltage on the controller itself was not doing what I thought it was. The output from ro...

Ok made more progress...I think I had the wrong baud rate set. I was able to get the version command to work with the python library as well as some of the other read apis. However I still can't get the motors to move. import time import roboclaw #Linux comport name roboclaw.Open("/dev/ttyAMA0&...

Also, I've installed the roboclaw windows driver and IonMotion. I have the roboclaw connected to the usb port but it's not showing up in device manager. The power led is blinking 4 times now. I also have a mac, when I look at the usb devices I see this: USB Roboclaw 2x7A: Product ID: 0x2404 Vendor I...

Apologies, I mistyped, it's the 2/7A. The roboclaw was powered by it's own source 4AA batteries. Using a raspberry pi I've tried standard serial with the wiringPi serial library. I've also tried the roboclaw python library with no success. It even fails to get the version. The motors are 140 RPM Gea...

Hi, having trouble with the roboclaw 2/7A controller.

I've tried standard and packet serial with the raspberry pi and have not been able to get the motors to turn.

Not sure what else to do... Any advice?