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How to wire the IR on the RC?
Hi guys,
We're having a sirious problem with the IR: We're wiring the wires of the colorful cable thingy to PWM pins, and we're connecting them to the RC to the digital in/out pins. When we're connecting the PWMs to the digital in/out pins the ERORR light on the IR turns on and we're not able to use the IR. I presume we're just not sure how to wire the wires of the colorful cable, but we haven't found any guides, except for one Edena Robotic's one on Youtube. What do we do? Thanks in advance, Nir. |
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
I suspect that you after you wired the outputs to a PWM, you plugged the PWM in the "normal" way. You need to connect it in sideways in the signal row.
(I will try and get a picture of ours soon.) |
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
Hi there!
You should connect the IR board's output into the Digital I/O, and in your robot code, have a section for interpreting the signal, maybe something like what is shown below if your output is connected to Digital I/O #1. Code:
if (rc_dig_in01)
{
printf("Button one is pressed on IR\r\n");
}
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
I don't know if this is because we tried on a vex controller, but when we set up the IR sensor, everything was inverted. So we got +voltage out of every pwm when there was no button press, and then when there was a button press, we had every input but the needed one drop in voltage to 0. I am startng to think that we have it miswired, but this is what the pwms look like (1 = +voltage, 0 = 0 voltage)
Code:
no button: 1111 1st button: 1000 2nd button: 0100 3rd button: 0010 4th button: 0001 |
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
That's what you usually see when you use a separate battery to power the IR board. With two different batteries the grounds are not common and the signal pins stay high.
You could get around it with a check of all the pins, such as: Code:
if (rc_dig_in13 == 0 || rc_dig_in14 == 0 || rc_dig_in15 == 0 || rc_dig_in16 == 0)
{
if (rc_dig_in13 == 1)
{
//Drive away
}
}
Last edited by Mark McLeod : 16-01-2008 at 16:34. |
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
Ok, thanks for confirming that it isnt an error. And yeah, I was going to just do the suggested code.. Thought something was wrong!
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
I was wondering, do you power the IR senor with the backup battery through the pwm outputs, or you have to wire them directly onto the E board with like a 20amp fuse. Also do you need to supply power to both positives and negatives or just one set of them to use the sensor?
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
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I think you will need to power the IR board via the 12V distribution panel. I believe the PWM outputs are 5V. The IR board needs at least 7 Volts in order to work properly, hence wiring to the 12V panel. I would recommend a very small fuse, like 1 amp.
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
The PWM outputs are at unregulated backup battery voltage, nominally 7.2v and dropping
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
Thanks Mark for the PWM output information (tied to backup battery voltage)
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Not sure what you are seeing on your Vex but here's some code from out testing unit. The check for rc_dig_14 is just a way to run this code only if a jumper is in 14.
My printf is returning all zeros, unless an IR cmd button is pressed. printf("c1: %d c2: %d c3: %d c4: %d\r", (int)rc_dig_in03,(int)rc_dig_in04,(int)rc_dig_in05 ,(int)rc_dig_in06); if (rc_dig_in14) //no jumper { if (rc_dig_in03) ir_cmd = CMD0; else if (rc_dig_in04) ir_cmd = CMD1; else if (rc_dig_in05) ir_cmd = CMD2; else if (rc_dig_in06) ir_cmd = CMD3; switch (ir_cmd) { case CMD0: //Forward pwm02 = (unsigned char) 254; pwm03 = (unsigned char) 50; //Adjusted for Faster Motor break; case CMD1: //Turn Right pwm02 = 0 + RT_SPEED_ADJ - 20; //Adjusted for slower motor pwm03 = 0 + RT_SPEED_ADJ; break; case CMD2: //Turn Left pwm02 = 254 - LT_SPEED_ADJ; pwm03 = 254 - LT_SPEED_ADJ; break; case CMD3: //Stop pwm02 = 127; pwm03 = 127; break; } } I have each of the appropriate rainbow cable wires going to the signal pin (white) and I daisy chained the grounds (black) with pins 3 and 4 from the rainbow cable. I have a toggle sw to control the power to the IR unit, so if the Vex Power in on, then I switch on the IR unit, I get initial 1's then zeroes. If I already have the IR power on, then power on the Vex, I get zeroes from the beginning. |
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Re: How to wire the IR on the RC?
Problem solved: IR gone nuts and wiring was wrong.
Next IR will come in next week but we'll be able to work with it by then. Currently we're alterning switches as IRs (seeing how the code reacts with switches on and off etc.) |
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