Thread: Help wiring the Axis 206 to the PDB.
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Re: Help wiring the Axis 206 to the PDB.
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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
Is there any way we can make it clearer that the sidecar runs on 12V? For whatever reason, several teams have tried to run it off 5V this year.
The connections on the breakouts needed to be labeled 12v.
A surer bet would be to label the dedicated PDB connection points:"camera", "radio", "cRIO", "everything else"

But I bet you'd still have teams connecting them to random places, or not at all as we see every year.
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