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Re: Can you hook the photo sensors to one 12 volt out??

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Originally Posted by RyanN View Post
For the Digital Input Cables, we got the 5V power, and the signal and brought them to the terminal strip. We put a resistor between the 5V DIO power, and the signal.
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With the resistor between the 5V and the signal, what you did is create a pull-up for the circuit using a pull-up resistor.
The Digital Sidecar DIO pins are internally pulled up to 5V using 10K resistors.
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