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Originally Posted by billbo911
You're going to need to know what voltage the signal on the latch needs to be, ie. +5vdc or +12vdc.
Next you will need to determine if the GPIO pins can provide it.
If the GPIO can not, then you may need to develop a driver that will take the output of the GPIO pins and covert it to the needed voltage/power the latch will need.
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thank you very much for getting back to us!
we've been using 12v to test it. as it's a car trunk latch we figured it would be the same twelve volts that most of the electrical system is. It may be possible to trigger it with 5v. (we're testing now) In any case, we'll get power to it, somehow.
The specifications from the manufacturer says that the signal line, the one we'd want to run to the dash board, is 5 volts.
I assume these are two separate things.
we're trying to:
A. Trigger the latch
and
B. send a signal to the dashboard
The thing we're having difficulty with is on the LabView end. How do we send a signal to the GPIO pins? How do we receive a signal from the GPIO pins? Are the Digital Sidecar GPIO pins the best way to be doing this?