Thread: Wiring the IR Receiver
View Single Post
  #8   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 27-01-2008, 22:44
popo308's Avatar
popo308 popo308 is offline
Registered User
AKA: Brent
FRC #1625 (Winnovation)
Team Role: Alumni
  
Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Winnebago, IL
Posts: 312
popo308 is a name known to allpopo308 is a name known to allpopo308 is a name known to allpopo308 is a name known to allpopo308 is a name known to allpopo308 is a name known to all
Send a message via AIM to popo308
Re: Wiring the IR Receiver
Quote:
Originally Posted by RyanN View Post
I would definitely use 12V. If you use the 7.2V backup battery, you are only giving yourself a leeway of 1/5 of a volt (our backup battery was dead... around 6.5V). I believe under-volting the IR board can cause it to fail, as was in our case. The programming within our PIC controller failed. If you put it on a 12V circuit, you give it a 5V leeway, which is pretty good.
We just took the digital in/out and bridged 14 and 15 ground and power to our IR board and it was working with no problems (and this way your nor running off of your backup and your still giving the board 10 volts... also minimizing wire runs)