Newbie building a hexapod

Lynxmotion Legged Robots
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Hi,

I am working on building a hexapod using 18 servos, a botboardunio, and a SSC32 servo controller. I am trying to figure out what to use to power it and am confused. Reading the tutorial on lynxmotion they are using a 9V battery to power the logic part and a 6V battery to power the servos. I have been reading about people using a single battery and using battery elimination circuits. I would prefer to use one battery if I can.

Can anyone recommend what to use for power and how to wire it?

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We normally suggest s 6V 2800mAh battery:
robotshop.com/en/6v-2800mah- … ttery.html
robotshop.com/en/wh-01-wirin … ector.html
robotshop.com/en/nimh-nicd-s … -1025.html

The 9V battery is for VL in the event that the servos draw high current, the 6V output might drop and cause a brownout.
If you find that your robot works well at 6V and doesn’t brown out (i.e. go limp and lose power), then you don’t need the 9V battery.

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Thanks for the reply. So I would connect the 6v battery to VS2 and VL on the SSC32 and VL on the botboarduino?

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We offer a wiring diagram here: lynxmotion.com/images/data/l … _guide.pdf (Page 21)

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Thanks I will read through it. I was just seeing this one lynxmotion.com/images/html/build99f.htm

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Thanks for the info. I read through the guide and I think I get it now. I just need to connect a 6V battery to VS1 on the SSC32 board, leave the VS1 = VS2 jumpers on, and connect VS2 on the SSC32 to VL on the botboarduino. I am guessing I was seeing people using the BEC’s because they are using lipo packs and need to drop the voltage. I am going to just start buy using a 6V NIMH pack and keep is simple.