Hi,
I'm trying to figure out why the pancake ERM's I am using keep getting hot. I've swapped manufactures, all the boards, 2-3 ft wire, etc.
I'm using a Flora board, i2c multiplexer, driving 6 DRV2605l boards ( all from Adafruit)
I've been back n forth with them over this to no avail.
I created a PCB board to eliminate the proto board.
The motors are rated for 5-6 v. I've taken them apart to verify they are erm's.
They are usually fine for about the first 5-10 minutes... after that they get hot for about 3-5 seconds and cool off for 5-10 seconds and right back to getting hot (too hot for bare skin).
I'm at my wit's end... I had had the same setup and code for the past 6 months (used for hours at a time), now it's out of the blue things have changed... The DRV boards are not hot, they are pushing 5v at the out pins.
The code is fairly simple, I'm using the library for effects. I started with adafruits code... started having heat problems and played around with the TI code thinking is was the latter
Can the C++ code actually make it get hot? Using Arduino..
An thoughts and reasoning would be great
Thanks for your help
Jim
