#necoro

Despite being new out of the box, jiffy needed some repairs done to his back legs. one leg was acting extremely strange, constantly engaging and whirring loudly when it wasn't supposed to, and the other leg wasn't getting power at all. His battery was also pretty nonfunctional.

I got the simple part out of the way, I cycled his battery for several hours and now he holds a 3+ hour charge, when he only ran for 20 minutes out of the box.

Onto his whirring leg... I opened his leg up and cleaned out his lower leg pot, and did physical therapy on the limb. I went through this for several rounds, and it cleared up the nasty whirring.

Onto his unmoving leg...

At first, I opened his leg up like the previous one and checked the connectors with a multimeter to see if they were getting power (not pictured). One of the connectors came up with a blank reading, so I put his leg back together and removed it completely from his body. I was surprised to find he wasn't set up like a near-me inside, with wires attaching the hip to the body, but instead had limb blocks similar to an aibo.

Without going further into his torso, I came to the conclusion this was the source of the issue. The pins on his hip must've misaligned in shipping and weren't making contact with his torso, or they were just dirty. I cleaned the pins and contacts, reseated his limb, and the issue resolved! his leg was getting full power again!!