Where's the +7.2 vdc?

Lynxmotion Electronics & Software
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it says in the manual to connect the green wire to the 7.2 vdc, where is that, i looked and looked and i dont see it lol, sorry for this question. thx for your answers!

Sam

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well i know that it says that but dosn’t meen it
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lynxmotion.com/images/html/build034.htm

have fun with your project :smiley:

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dont connect the green wire to anything, it is meant to give power to a wiresless IR reciever unit, i made that mistake and my board went all toasty, the pins melted through the board :cry:

sam, you might remeber when this happened

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yeah I remenber, but I do have a wireless controller, but its not madCatz and it seems not to be working with the program to put what it receives in the dewbug window. Maybe its just the controller. I guess I will try to put a pullup on pin 7 but, what’s a pullup? and I guess its 1K too?

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Thanks for your answer :smiley: my project is going to be hard… but thats the fun!

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The green wire powers the motors in the tethered PS2 controller, and is used in some wireless receivers. It’s not used with the Lynxmotion wireless controller though. Some tutorials refer to connecting it to the VS which can be 7.2vdc.

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I geusse when I take off my teathered ps2 controller and put on a wireless one, I better take off the green pin. Thanks for the tip guys, saved me some bucks in the future… :laughing:

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no, in the teathered ps2 controller, you puit iit sometimes for the vibration motors, in the wireless its for the receiver… thats right I think

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Oh, I misunderstood, thanks for pointing that out. Appreciate it!

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Interesting though because I use the Basic Atom PRO and I connected that wire using a stock Sony controller and nothing happened… Yet when chunga did it using a non-pro BA his pins melted :S Odd!

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maybe different voltage is sent out through those pins somehow?? Or it was totally the wrong case and thats not the whole story perhaps?? :confused:

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i think the wires somehow touched and it made a bad yucky and shorted

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Yup, might be the case. Though not sure how insulated wires could touch and short :S

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lol, did that with a battery once and burnt my ssc pins a bit