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niqui

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Registered: 2016-06-10

Posts: 2

Plen 2 servos moving in random positions

I recently received my PLEN 2 fully assembled and tested robot and it worked well out of the box with the Android App Scenography. I then connected it to the Motion Editor on my Mac computer via a USB connection and it worked well for a few minutes, then all of a sudden all of PLEN's servos moved into random positions and his arms and legs got all twisted up.

I tried resetting the home positions with the "PLENUtilities for Web" tool as well as PLEN-Check on my android device but nothing seems to work. Now every time that I turn PLEN on the servos automatically go into a twisted position and sound like they are working really hard.

Thanks,
-NiQui

niqui

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Registered: 2016-06-10

Posts: 2

Re: Plen 2 servos moving in random positions

yeah, the battery is fully charged, and because it is fully charged, the servos have a lot of power to work really hard, and I'm afraid that they are going to burn out when endlessly trying to twist.

Croy

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Registered: 2016-04-17

Posts: 5

Re: Plen 2 servos moving in random positions

You might try reloading the firmware to the control board. I think it resets  the home positions.

Guvalif

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Registered: 2015-08-31

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Re: Plen 2 servos moving in random positions

Hi, PLEN users!

If really the battery is fully charged, PLEN doesn't move into random.
Thus, I think the issue probably caused by early failures on your battery or battery charger.

If you would like to check it, please send us your PLEN to following address:
3F Meijiyasuda-Life Osaka Umeda Bidg. 3-3-20 Umeda Kita-ku Osaka-city Osaka 530-0001 Japan

Please note that you need to write the word "NOT RESTRICTED" in a bill of landing, in a shipping.