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While powering the Motor controller and CAN-eth bridge, if your computer doesn’t automatically detect the two devices, you will need to manually add them in Profinity. This can be done by clicking on the ‘Add Device’ button and manually adding the two. When connected and properly powered, it should look something like this.
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It might take a bit of disconnecting and reconnecting cables to your laptop to make this work, as it’s a little finnicky.
Characterizing the Motors
Now we can start to configure the motor. While this guide does go in-depth, I would strongly recommend reading the WaveSculptor Config Software User's Manual (especially Sections 4, 5, and 6).
If you right click on the WaveSculptor22 section on profiles, you should see something like this
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Navigate to Setup and Configuration > tools > co
Operating the Motors
WARNING: By using a power supply to test the motors, we do not want regen braking to occur because power flowing back into the power supply will damage it!
To prevent this, make sure ‘Motor Current’ is set to zero before changing the velocity.
When you want to spin the motors, set ‘Velocity’ to a certain speed, then ramp up ‘Motor Current’ and you should expect the motors to spin.
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Note: if you set the motor current too low (i.e. < 1 A), the motors may not spin.