So…. I’ve had a chance to look at the mounts…… And it would appear that they were assembled incorrectly….
Above you can see the disassembled low mount that was on the right side of the rover. I tried pushing on parts, flexing, rotating, and everything seemed solid and the barrel wouldn’t budge. So, being the engineer I am, I took it apart.
The first thing I notice was that the metal plate had a hole with two flats on it. Then I inspected the plastic potion for matching flats and notice this:
Not great to see as it looks like something was being pressed together that shouldn’t have, but after inspecting the barrel and seeing this:
The thought occurred to me that maybe, JUST MAYBE, the issue was something as simple as improper assembly. So I tried putting the barrel back in and intentionally misaligning it with the hole in the plate and resulted in the picture on the left. I rotated it until it lined up with the opening and felt it drop in and got the picture on the right…..
Needless to say, I put everything back together and powered up the rover, IN MY GARAGE, and got this:
I finally was able to drive it out, went out and got the charging station setup and connected and now have the setup below…
Though, interestingly as pointed out by the arrow in the picture the light on the DC has turned yellow (and occasionally goes back to green too…), which in the past couple days, I’ve not seen it do since I moved it. But, at the location with the charging station I now get this, though it occasionally blinks out for a second….
At this point, it’s a bit late in the day to try to do any actual mapping, but I’ll hopefully get a chance to try it out later this week or next.
And if y’all will forgive me, for as much as I was starting to stress about all the work I’ve put in thus far, I’m going to be a bit negative for a second.
@Yarbo-Forum this is a joke. For the price of this equipment, for such a simple failure to have ever left your manufacturing facility is appalling. Something like this should have a ZERO percent occurance rate because something as simple as aligning the barrel to the plate during assembly, but being so critical to functionality, is something that should be ONE HUNDERED PERCENT INSPECTED! I could understand if it was a component failure, or if it was something that required high precision and accuracy to assembly correctly, or was a delicate part that broke in shipping, but it’s a dang round part with flats going in a matching hole, and worse yet it’s VISIBLY OBVIOUS if you get it wrong. Unless these are being assembled by three random guys in a back room of an abandoned Chinese strip mall, this is really not cool and gives me pause to consider what level of quality the rest of the rover is built with. And it doesn’t matter that it was simple enough I could fix it in a couple minutes myself. I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO for the price this equipment cost. At the end of the day, this is just really poor manufacturing and quality control.
Now that said, now that it’s fixed and the problem was something that simple, I’m happy to go back to being positive and hopeful as I have been about Yarbo as almost everything else so far has been pretty smooth and the few other hiccups have been somewhat of my own making. But something like that does not sit well with me for a company with high asperations. Rant over…