Help wiring the Axis 206 to the PDB.

[winglerw28]

I need help plugging our Axis 206 into the power distribution board - it runs on 5v but our digital sidecar is plugged into the 5v line and I'm am thoroughly confused.

Thank you so much for any help!

[Mark McLeod]

The Digital Sidecar requires 12v and should be powered from a small set of red/black wago connectors on the Power Distribution Panel

The special 5v connector is for the camera.

You can see in the Power Wiring Diagram (found on the FIRST Kit of Parts website) where everything is supposed to go.

[winglerw28]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The Digital Sidecar requires 12v and should be powered from a small set of red/black wago connectors on the Power Distribution Panel

The special 5v connector is for the camera.

You can see in the Power Wiring Diagram (found on the FIRST Kit of Parts website) where everything is supposed to go.

Wow... we have been wiring it wrong for years then since it says 5v on our sidecar....

[Mark McLeod]

I haven't heard that one before.
What caused you to pick out the 5v label from the middle of the other labels?

BAT 5v 6v


(BAT by the way stands for the 12v battery)

[tdressel]

Questions on wiring the camera came up in our build session. Using the power diagram mentioned earlier in the thread, we did wire the camera's power to the 5v connection on the PDB (power distribution board). However, I thought it used a WAGO type connector. It didn't work.

The electrical team decided that it was okay to just wire in the camera directly into the 5v connector without any type of module.

QUESTION: Do you know if there is connector/module that is to be used to power the camera?

For example, we use the WAGO part for the power connector to the DLink: http://www.andymark.com/ProductDetai...Code=am%2D0296

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by tdressel

Questions on wiring the camera came up in our build session. Using the power diagram mentioned earlier in the thread, we did wire the camera's power to the 5v connection on the PDB (power distribution board). However, I thought it used a WAGO type connector. It didn't work.

The electrical team decided that it was okay to just wire in the camera directly into the 5v connector without any type of module.

The camera wires directly into the 5v gray built-in wago connector on the Power Distribution Panel. That gray piece is itself a wago connecter, not a place to plug in a white wago connector.

On the the Power Distribution Panel, the lone white wago plug is only used for connecting the 12v-to-5v converter for the DLink.

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by winglerw28

I need help plugging our Axis 206 into the power distribution board - it runs on 5v but our digital sidecar is plugged into the 5v line and I'm am thoroughly confused.

Thank you so much for any help!

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.

[MagiChau]

If you would need to connect multiple things to the same power source on the PDB you would use terminal blocks provided in the KoP.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by EricVanWyk

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.

[Matt Krass]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

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.

These things need power?!

Well.
That explains a lot.

Matt

[Nicandy]

Our team wired up the axis camera according to the diagram, and we already did everything you mentioned. Our camera is getting 5V, but no power...?
I know it's a bit of an off topic question, but if any of you could help, it would be greatly appreciated.

[DavidGitz]

Make sure that you check the polarity of the plug compared to what the Axis camera needs as well. If you are getting (don't quote me here, check for yourself) 5V in the center of the plug compared the outside of the plug, that should be fine. The camera takes about ~20 seconds to turn the led ring on the front to orange, then when it is transmitting data it will turn green.