Issue with daisy-chained ThunderBorg

Hi,

I have 2 thunderborgs, that each power 2 windscreen wiper motors. Each thunderborg has it's own power source - a 12v mobility scooter battery each. So 4 motors powered by 2 thunderborgs. The TBs each have a unique address and are both recognised by the supplied demo code ok.

The problem is that all 4 motors stall immediately. But when I remove 1 TB, so I have have just 1 TB powering 2 motors, it works absolutely fine.

Is there something different I have to do with the wiring to enable each TB to be driven by it's own power source?

thanks

piborg's picture

It sounds like the communications failsafe might be triggering and causing the motors to stop.

Try adding this command for both boards after you have set them up:

TB.SetCommsFailsafe(False)

If the script has a section like this:

# Ensure the communications failsafe has been enabled!
failsafe = False
for i in range(5):
    TB.SetCommsFailsafe(True)
    failsafe = TB.GetCommsFailsafe()
    if failsafe:
        break
if not failsafe:
    print 'Board %02X failed to report in failsafe mode!' % (TB.i2cAddress)
    sys.exit()

you should also comment it out.

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