Getting ready to wire up the 24 volt converter for a phidgets motor and want to make sure the wiring is correct and i have the right pins for the ampseal connector. v4 board (edit: standard board v4.1 i believe)
no that looks wrong to me
the 24v out needs to go straight to the motor, NOT in to any pins
sorry jumped the gun and didnt see the standard 4.1 edit
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The diagram looks correct
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Ok. Then what is the meaning of pin 18 cytron input? I thought the two motor wires go to pins 5 and 6.
Normaly pin 18 is 24v input then on the pcb you wire 24v to cytron.
If you check pcb it say cytron voltage.
Use wire to connect both
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@cowhound Can you show us a pic of your board? I’m not sure if there are any differences between all the v4.x Std/Micro boards but I believe P18 goes straight to the Cytron + input on the Std but on the Micro you need to add a jumper wire on the PCB. Then your motor gets connected to P5 & P6 but also make sure to connect P4 to a solid GND too.
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@m_elias I’m still waiting on my board to get here so and i cant post one yet. I will double check the board before actually hooking it up.
I should have said it is the standard board.
Pin 4 (ground for WAS sensor) needs its own separate ground as well?
Thanks for the help btw
The wire you are talking about is for the micro only right, not for the standard?
You can use P4 for WAS GND too but in my opinion it’s better positioned to supply ground for the Cytron. In the end, you likely won’t have any trouble using any of the GND pins however you want.
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Thanks. I’ll tie in a good ground there just to be safe.
So if I wanted to use the freewheel mod using an automotive relay and I was using a 24v motor like the diagram shows above, would I also need to include a 24v automotive relay between ampseal pins 5,7, gnd pin 23 and pin 87 of relay output to motor, or will the single automotive relay between the 10 amp fuse and the 12v input of the 12v to 24v converter shown in the diagram above already serve that purpose?
You could put it on the 12v power to the converter, but without breaking one of the motor wires there is still some resistance, much less but noticeable.