Help wiring the Axis 206 to the PDB.

[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.