Overloaded vorpal?

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Aug 14, 2019, 8:06:44 AM8/14/19

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I am part of https://ioi.london/mega-maker-lab/where I am doing demos and promoting Vorpal hexapod.

The kids get to play with it, and I may have overloaded it!

Every now and then, it simply powers off.

The batteries are charged, the nano light comes on, but I get no beeps and no response as I shift the pot through the different modes.

If I turn it off and on again, eventually I can get it to work.

Also, one of the legs gets stuck when the foot section is raised above parallel.

It isn't getting snagged.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Brendon

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Aug 14, 2019, 12:15:51 PM8/14/19

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I found the wiki entry on overheating the servos.

This is probably the cause - the robot was working very hard for an extended period!