RPLidar A2

Good Day,

I have bought an RPLidar A2 development kit, but I’m struggling to start rotating the device?
I see it does have an port for external 5VDC power supply, but on the manuals it does not show the external power supply?

After adding a 5VDC power supply it still does not want to spin…

Please help…

Gerhard
South Africa

Hi,

The motor of the RPLIDAR A2 should be controlled through the MOTOCTL pin with a PWM signal.
It is explained in page 14 of the datasheet here.

Regards,