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Long drive to a competition tomorrow, and there’s an epic skatepark near where I’m staying. The new steering block for my Vorteks arrived today to replace a broken one and installing went well, now I need to quickly tackle the other problems I hope y’all can give me some good tips. I’ll go in order of most important to least.
- steering trim is really really far off from the middle, its location changes after I calibrate the steering endpoints (more on that later*).
- after turning right, the wheels don’t return to the middle perfectly and stay a little on the right side, but if I turn left they snap back nicely to the middle.
- front wheels wobble A LOT especially at low speed, not sure if this is a problem or how to fiz
- car sometimes gently reverses by itself?? I recalibrated the throttle endpoints but that didn’t work.
*I have been struggling with steering endpoints. Sometimes, when in calibration mode, one of the wheels will only turn a tiny little bit and there’s no way to add to the turn during calibration, you have to whip it from the other extreme side of steering to get it into a good place. Then it works. But this servo isn’t cheap, and it’s brand new! It’s a $90 servo I got about a month ago, and it functions fine! I did endpoint calibration right when I got it so it’s never been stressed. Anyway, help with any of these issues would be great!!
Note: I think it returns to center fine when it’s on a stand
- steering trim is really really far off from the middle, its location changes after I calibrate the steering endpoints (more on that later*).
- after turning right, the wheels don’t return to the middle perfectly and stay a little on the right side, but if I turn left they snap back nicely to the middle.
- front wheels wobble A LOT especially at low speed, not sure if this is a problem or how to fiz
- car sometimes gently reverses by itself?? I recalibrated the throttle endpoints but that didn’t work.
*I have been struggling with steering endpoints. Sometimes, when in calibration mode, one of the wheels will only turn a tiny little bit and there’s no way to add to the turn during calibration, you have to whip it from the other extreme side of steering to get it into a good place. Then it works. But this servo isn’t cheap, and it’s brand new! It’s a $90 servo I got about a month ago, and it functions fine! I did endpoint calibration right when I got it so it’s never been stressed. Anyway, help with any of these issues would be great!!
Note: I think it returns to center fine when it’s on a stand
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