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Unread 05-01-2003, 22:15
Lloyd Burns Lloyd Burns is offline
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The Gyro Chip output is centred around 2.50V+/-0.5, with a range of from 0.25V to 4.75V, and the signal is 27.00 mV/degree/sec, for a turn up to 75 degrees/sec (do the math, eh?).

The power input is 5V@20mA max.

With the mounting hole in the horizontal plane, on the bottom surface, positive rotation is clockwise looking down at the top. The pins of the connector are numbered (cleverly in little black numbers on a nice black background at the bottom of a dark tunnel, but who reads, anyway?) and 2 is signal and power "ground", 3 is the +5V power, and 1 is the output (nominal impedance 1 kohm.

You can either hack off the tunnel and solder to the pins, or try to find an "AMP" micro Quadlock Sytem coneector, P/N 1-967081-1 "A" polarity. I'm sure if I went to my Active store it would jump right off the shelf at me (NOT !).