I am going to be adding some servos to my Brat as well as adding a Sinewinder Light Bar.
I want to connect an ssc32 to my existing BB2. I am not in any way an electronics expert and I need explicit instructions on how to do this! Can someone point me in the right direction as far as tutorials or diagrams to do this? I’m sorry to have to ask as I’m sure that the information I need is in the forums or tutorials someplace, but I’m getting a bit overwhelmed and having trouble locating what I need, even after doing searches.
What I need is a detailed wiring diagram between the two boards and also how to reference the servos in bap programs such as Autonomous Water Bottle Attack Code (abrat5.bas).
I also want to know exactly where on the bb2 I can connect a Sinewinder R/C Lighting System (DE-04), if possible. Again, I’m sorry if this seems like basic stuff I should know or be able to find or figure out myself, but I’m more of a programmer than an electrician!
Hope this isn’t too much to ask for in one posting! Many, many thanks in advance!
If so, do I just ignore the “dotted” lines? What about jumper settings and power cables…can I run both boards via the 6v battery, and, if so, how do I do that?
Thanks for your reply! I still am a little unsure about the power connections and the jumper settings when connecting the 2 boards together. I certainly don’t want to burn anything up!
There are many diagrams up on the site that do a good job of showing it. For example Figure 13-3 in the phoenix tutorialhttp://www.lynxmotion.com/image … ild159.htm
This one uses two power supplies. 1 that supplies the logic of the two boards and another that supply the servos.
You can also do it with one power supply such as a 6V battery, It is not quite as robust, but I have done that in the past with a brat and my test setup is that way. For a single supply what I will typically do is to take my power supply and connect it to the VL power inputs of the BB2, then take some wires of the appropriate gauge to handle the current and screw them into the VS terminal of the BB2 and connect it to a set of terminals on the SSC-32. On both boards you would leave on the VL=VS jumpers and on the SSC-32 leave on the VS1=VS2 jumpers.
Note sure if this would help more, but here is a picture showing my test hookup:[attachment=0]SSC32-and-BB2.jpg[/attachment]
On this setup I am using a Wall wart that plugs into a switch that goes to my BB2 with the Atom Pro. You can see the wires that then take the power from the BB2 to the SSC-32. I then took a standard servo extension wire. I removed the two communication jumpers near the serial port and plugged the servo cable in it with the black wire connected to ground. At the other end I used an exacto knife and removed the red and yellow wires and then put the red one back into that connector on the outside where the yellow one was earlier. I then plugged this cable into P12 on the BB2 (Black Ground/Red Signal), I then plugged the yellow wire into the IO pin for P11. This gives me bidirectional communications between the two boards. In the current setup I also have a IR sensor as well as an XBEE. On the SSC-32 I currently have the baud rate set to 38400 (Baud jumpers 1 0).
