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The current shipping boards are V5. I expect that board was in their stock for atleast a year or longer before you bought it based on the tests so far. It definitely has the older firmware on it that dpes not work with the current arduino library. This version of the arduino library may work with yo...

There is no explicit command to put the controller in freewheel mode. The only time it does this is if an overcurrent is detected or if an under voltage is detected. So to do what you want, my suggestion would be to set the minimum main battery voltage higher than the actual battery voltage. Then ba...

You may have an older board without the bootloader. But it would be several years old. One last thing to try is to hold the Lipo button while powering up the board. If the LEDs still dont cycle it is definitely a board without the bootloader. Also, there should be a version V# silkscreened on the PC...

1. Good 2. Once it has reached its constant speed it should be within +-2 or 3 of that speed in IonMotion(eg reading the average speed not the ispeed). 3. Yes I was. And no it wont work for chaining multiple movements together. with different speeds and accelerations without stopping in between. 4. ...

Thank you for the post. We will try to reproduce this. It definitely looks like a UI scalling bug(since the Stop button is also out of place and the status bar at the buttom is pushed completely out of the window). The state of the Roboclaw would have no effect on the UI layout so I think this is pu...

Also, if you need the highest speed communications possible then always use the hardware serial port on the Arduino. These are pins 0 and 1 on the UNO and Duemilanova boards. On the Mega 2560 there are 4 hardware serial ports. The Arduino can communicate up to 57600 with little error and 115200 is a...

I feel your P values are a little low. In most of my tuned motors I found P to be about 10 times higher than I. Have you tuned by increasing P(I and D at 0) until the motors start to continously oscilate and then back off by 1/3rd? If not Id give that a try. Then set your I to about 1/10 the P value...

If the SET button starts blinking when you hold it on power up it means you have older firmware on your Roboclaw that doesnt have the "power up reset defaults" option. Now that you have the board showing up, you will need to update the firmware. To do thet you do not click the Device/Conne...

Yes, the current firmware(release version) is 4.1.16. The QA version is 4.1.17 but may have bugs(hence the QA). We encourage people to use the QA release and report any problems they may find. At this point we are nearly ready to make the release version 4.1.17 but we are going to hold off a little ...

1. If you are hearing buzzing the PID settings are too aggressive causing the motor to constantly be oscilating(eg having power dumped into it). Reduce the PID settings some and/or add some deadzone so when the motor reaches the 0 point and there are no external forces pushign against the motor it w...