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One point which is still unclear to me (perhaps a subject for another thread?) In battery-only power source scenario - how can one calculate if the "peak power absorption rate" of the battery is greater than the "peak power generation potential" of the motor? In other words, how ...

Ok, makes sense - Thank You! To Summarize how I managed to kill this SOLO (Presumably applies to all RoboClaws): When using only a Power Supply instead of a battery to power a RoboClaw, and the battery voltage is set in Motion Studio to match the power supply voltage - the SOLO will send energy gene...

Ok, thanks for your thorough explanation. Lesson learned - don't use a bench power supply without shunt diodes and power dissipation with a motor which can generate significant amount of energy (not inductive spikes, but generator). Alternatively, I will put a battery in parallel with the power supp...

Ok, thanks for this useful information. My bench power supply does shunt the inductive voltage spike - it even makes a little click when the protection circuit is triggered - but perhaps it's not fast enough. Are there really no protection flyback diodes in the Motor A/B leads? Would you agree this ...

Hello, Motion Studio 1.0.0.64 I'm using a SOLO 30A with a 600 PPR A/A Encoder with microswitch endstop on S3. After trying multiple times with multiple PCs and SOLOs, I have always experienced the same problem when trying to auto-tune PID (Velocity or Position) - it has never completed. Encoder work...

Also, does the fact I'm powering it with a bench power supply have any significance? This problem seemed to occur when I was performing forward and backward movement (using PWM slider in Motion Studio) with small ramps - so quick direction changes. Also, I am not providing separate logic power, does...

Regarding your comment about killing usb cables, I did try 3 different cables, no joy. For the USB port, I plugged a generic FTDI into the same port as SOLO - The FTDI is detected by windows as VCP. Even so, I did try using a different PC (which I have used successfully in the past with SOLO) After ...

Hello, thanks for your reply. As I mentioned in my post, I believe I have already done all the troubleshooting steps you mentioned. I've even inspected the USB SMD solder joints with a microscope - they look ok (no cracks, the jack is firmly mounted to the PCB). Is it possible to put a SOLO Into DFU...

Hello, I Have been working with a SOLO 30A for a few weeks now. I'm using a bench power supply set to ~17V (to simulate a 4S battery pack) and a micro-usb connection to a Windows 10 Pro machine. The motor is being driven at <10A in closed loop with encoder and microswitch endstop (with 4k7 external ...