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Anton
10-02-2005, 14:46
can someone please tell me how to do some basic things with the pneumatic thing? like turning the compressor on/off:)
also, wgere do i wire all the cables?
I tried searching, but all of the posts i found assume that the reader already knows the basis and needs to know something more compliciated.
Joe Ross
10-02-2005, 15:06
Have you read through pneumaticsfirst.org?
Anton
10-02-2005, 15:09
hey, thanks. I'll go check it out
Anton
10-02-2005, 15:24
I've been to there but I haven;t found anything about programming. are you sure there is something useful for me? or maybe I have just missed it?
Alan Anderson
10-02-2005, 16:02
I've been to there but I haven;t found anything about programming. are you sure there is something useful for me? or maybe I have just missed it?
The "programming" consists of a single line of code. In the Buttons to Relays section of the default code, well-camouflaged among all the other copying of input switches to output relays, lies this small nugget:
relay8_fwd = !rc_dig_in18; /* Power pump only if pressure switch is off. */
With this line in Default_Routine(), the pressure switch wired between ground and digital input 18, and the compressor wired between ground and the FWD output of a Spike connected to the relay 8 output, you're golden.