i tried programming it again. I hear a few beeps but that’s all that happened.
Could you be a little more forthcoming with details?
Are you using a PC or laptop, true serial port or USB to serial cable?
You have the jumpers installed to enable serial com from the DB9?
Baud rate selected to 115.2k on SSC-32 and the PowerPod program?
Do you know what active comm ports are on your machine, and have you tried selecting another com port in the PowerPod program?
Again, green LED lit on the SSC-32, and does it ever go out?
The LED on the SSC-32 is not a power indicator, but a status indicator. It should light up initially, and stay lit until it has received serial data. Then it will blink when it’s receiving data.
Does the LED on the SSC-32 light up?
Does it ever go out?
no. neither the Bot board nor ssc-32 LED go out.
so is it not receiving the information?
The Bot Board’s LED should not go out. Please read the posts again to make sure you understand.
Did you change the baud rate on the SSC-32 to 38.4kbaud?
I’m afraid I can’t do much more without seeing your wiring.
I have gotten pictures but they are in a folder on my computer. Is there a way to post these pictures of my wiring?[/code]
Thanks…
This is how i did my wiring.
I can’t see all of the jumpers. I really wanted to see the Bot Board connections as well. Try a little more light and back off just a little.
I’m going to have to leave for now. I will try to help you further tomorrow. I’m not sure what’s going on yet. Nothing is adding up… Hang in there…
I can get more pictures on here a little later but the Bot Board connections are exactly like the picture you posted.
There are differences in your wiring. You show 3 sets of wires going to the SSC-32. One is clearly the wiring harness for the servo battery. Can you explain what goes where on the other two sets?
We need to dig into the problem that the Bot Board doesn’t beep or send data to the SSC-32. Are you sure you have successfully programmed the Atom?
The 6v didn’t give enough power so i have both the 6v and 9v connected. I removed the VL=VS1 jumper and connected the 9v to the logic. So that is what the extra wiring is for.
Let me know if other images are needed of the board.
In the image of the Bot Board it looks as if there are 2 set of wires connected but in fact there is only one in the VS.
On the Bot Board…
The wiring harness with switch is connected to VS1, I assume it has a 6.0vdc battery connected. This is fine…
I assume you have the 9.0vdc battery connected to VL. So the SSC-32 will not reset if the servos draw too much current. This is fine…
I assume you have VS2 connected to wires that feed the VL input on the Bot Board. This is not fine… When the servos draw too much current the Atom could be resetting.
Remove the VS=VL jumper on the Bot Board.
Move the wires from VS2 to VL on the SSC-32. This means you will have two red wires going to the same terminal, and two black wires going to the same terminal.
Now the 9.0vdc battery will power the microcontroller on the SSC-32 AND the microcontroller on the Bot Board only. The servo battery goes to the SSC-32 to power the servos only.
Make these changes and tell me of the Bot Board beeps now.
ok i removed the VS=VL jumper on the Bot Board
Ok so i will connect the wires from the VL on the SSc-32 to the VL on teh Bot Board? Is that what you mean?
Yes sir. The 9.0vdc battery will be connected to the VL on the SSC-32 and to the VL on the Bot Board, and it will connect nowhere else. I don’t know how to state it any clearer.
Ok. I connected the VL on the SSC-32 and to the VL on the Bot Board i don’t understand where the 9.0v battery comes in. where is that to be connected? the only place left on the SSC-32 board is the VS2.
And the Board started beeping a while back the problem is thats all it does. How do i control it using the PS2 controller?
winterX I think you are going to kick yourself when you realize what is being said. The 9V battery powers BOTH the SSC-32 AND the BB. You are just chaining the 9V battery to the BB to the SSC-32… could also put it as you are hooking the BB and SSC-32 in parallel across the 9V battery.
The red wire of the battery goes to the VL+ of the BB and continues to the VL+ of the SSC-32.
Similarly the black wire of the battery goes to the VL- of the BB and continues to the SSC-32.
The VL+ terminal on the BB has TWO wires in it, one is the 9V battery red lead and the other goes to the SSC-32 VL+ terminal.
The VL- terminal on the BB has TWO wires in it, one is the 9V battery black lead and the other goes to the SSC-32 VL- terminal.