KaiLab Water Pump

How to use the KaiLab Water pump

How to correctly use the watter pump.

The Water Pump needs to be set at full power for a 30 second or more duration to prime the pump and get all the air out of the pipe, once water is flowing then it takes a few tries in a loop to control the time and amount of power to get the required flow.

Kai's Clan water pump pulling water

1. Lift the roof of the robot. Pull the roof away from the clear robot body.

Kai's Clan robot being lifted from its roof to access the interior

2. Remove the servo gripper cable and the two drive motor white plugs from the PCB. It is not recommended to pull on wires, rather pull the plugs out. Refer to the below diagram for putting your robot back together and test using turn left, turn right, open/close gripper code commands to test your robot. If your robot turns the opposite way, switch the drive motor cables around.

Connecting the water pump to the orange pin inside the Kai's Clan robot

3. Remove the servo/gripper cable and plug in the water pump/relay cable. Note the pin orientation of the servo/gripper cable for when you need to put the robot back together.  We recommend not removing the PCB from the roof as it can be difficult to reinstall the PCB.

Close up of water pump being plugged into the orange pin inside the Kai's Clan robot

4. Connect the moisture sensor to a different robot and under the robot manager tab, click the green circle icon and add both the moisture sensor and the water pump.

5. Add the "servo" in the robot manager to let your robot know that it's connected.  Kai's Clan simple image

Kai's Clan robot water pump connected between circuit board, robot and sensor


WARNING: 

Do not submerge the electronics / red PCB of the moisture sensor. If it does get wet, immediately switch off and dry off.

Do not submerge the water pump relay PCB, if it gets wet dry off, or use a hairdryer to remove moisture.

Do not submerge the robot PCB, switch off and dry off.

5. Modify your code to start getting data from your robot.


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