I’ve bought the Lynx 5 robot arm just recently and have done everything according to the instructions and was careful with all the parts, i connected the wall pack connector wire harness to the SSC-32 controller and attached the wire harness to power source through the regulated wall pack, but the green LED does not light up… the software is not getting the SSC card.
Is something wrong with the board? i desperately need help, and i tend to think that i didnt pay 300+ dollars for this arm for nothing, somebody - give me logic guidance.
Hi tera,
First relax ,do u have a voltage meter if so check ur power supply,should be 6volts to 9volts or u could remove the vl=vs jumper and power it with a 9v battery to see if the light comes on ,
also a good clear pic of ur wireing on ur board would help ,
just relax and take ur time so u dont mess something up well get you up and running
thanx smith…
a pic of my wiring on board is exactly like the first pic illustrated in the topic “SSC-32 Powering Options” posted by Robot Dude… i used wall pack instead of battery… and all the jumpers are in their positions as illustrated in the figure…
what did you mean by VS=VL? did you mean VL=VS1?
the wall pack, that was supplied with the lynx package, is supposed to give 6 volts as written on the contour of wall pack… though I didn’t measure it by voltage meter.
just for testing u need to remove the VL=VS1 if uyou use a 9v battery(you dont want to send 9v to your servos ) that was for testing ,
you also need to make shure of the polarity of the wallwart power pack is it center positive ? and the pic might let us see something out of place but if you use a new good 9v battery we can tell if its your power supply or a problem with your ssc32(so far i havent seen bad ssc from the factory but its got to happen some time) but these elctronics are sensitive to reverse polarity( + to ground = bad) so if you are planing on getting into the hobby you will need a voltage meter atleast ,try the 9v battery and let us know what happens and willl work from there , happy Bottin
Try this. Remove all servos from the board. The SSC-32’s green LED is part of the Logic Supply, VL, so all you need is 6-9vdc on the VL terminal to light the LED. Do you have a volt meter? if so, you should put the black wire on the (-) and the red wire on the (+) of the VL terminal and see if it reads anything. If it’s a problem with the wall pack or the connections the meter will not read anything. Let us know what you get.
