I have had 3 motor just dye on me. what can I do to stop them from dying
Maybe define “dying”.
Are they just stopping, then reworking again after some time?
or are they dead dead and not even showing up on your brain?
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you are probably overheating your motors. try optimizing mechanical elements of your bot to reduce friction and unnecessary stress.
They show up on the brain but it just makes a high pitch noise and does not move
could you specify a bit?
from the info you have given maybe try these:
- check the chords to make sure they aren’t malfunctioning
- check the motors to make sure they didn’t heat up
- battery?
- brain?
If you could specify a bit more it would be easier to understand whats going on
So its the motor’s problem.
I would suggest checking 2 things.
first check heat. If the motors are hot, then its a cooling problem. Let the robot rest before using the motors again
If the heat is normal, take off the motor, and undo the screws holding the front of the motor onto the back of the motor. Then try running the motor with a new back of the motor. If problem persists, then replace gear box. If the problem is fixed, the motor is probably bad. Throw it away.
A similar thing happened to our motors. We couldn’t find a solution, so we just decided to be more careful about overworking our motors. I’ll do some more testing on them if nobody else in this topic knows. I didn’t notice the motor dying until it completely failed. Not sure if it was a sudden break, or if I was too slow to notice. The high-pitched sound drove us insane.
One solution to this is quick-swapping motors.
In simple terms, you unscrew all the motors so you can take the cartridge (and the other component, which I don’t know the name of) out while leaving the motor cap.
When you need to change motors, you can just swap the cartridge and the other component, while leaving the cap in place.
To hold the motor in, you can use Zip ties, Rubber bands, or this.