Cytron Help Needed

Hardware Autosteer
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Hello,

I am working to get my first AOG system up and operational. Everything is checking out and working as it should, except my Cytron appears to not be outputting any voltage/signal? I made the free wheel modification as mentioned in other threads, so I’m not sure if the manual MA/MB switches to operate correctly? When I push them, nothing happens(the MA/MB lights don’t light). I have been trying to use the wizard to setup the system initially, and I get the auto steer icon to switch from red to yellow, and the green AS light comes on, but no power from the Cytron? Is it possible that the Cytron is simply bad?

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You probably need the plug going from the cytron to the main board. I can’t tell for sure but I don’t see it.

Also the manual buttons don’t work after the mod unless steering is on

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I did solder these 3 pins here, which assumed replaced the plug/wiring from the cytron to the main board?

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I believe you need the plug in the end of the cytron and that gets soldierd to some holes underneath the cytron.

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Thank you! This got it going!

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The three pins will work without the cytron modification but with the mod you need to connect the nc pin to pwm2 on the board. You can use it the way you have it and just add the plug with the red wire to connect to pwm2

This is the standard board but the same idea

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Good deal. I struggled with this for like 2 weeks.

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Hi guys new here, have my system almost up and running but looking about the freewheel mod.

My board is the same as that posted by cowhound above and only has the three pins(dir, pwm1 & gnd) soldered to the board. I don’t have the plug for the cytron and I’m just wondering if I can solder directly from the pwm2 hole on the pcb to the trace point on the cytron that normally is soldered to the NC pin of the plug?

Thanks

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yes soldering from the pad to the pwm hole will work fine.

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Hi Rorr

I’m making a V2.4 micro AIO board and I’ve the same trouble. Everything works but the cytron. Mine is modified too. Did you finally get it, don’t you? Do you have any pictures. I don’t understand, you mean the second pin in the citron to the midle point on the board???

Thank you

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Maybe you could post a picture of what you got and somebody might see what’s wrong. Ror was trying to make is work without using the plug. If you scroll up on this post I posted some pictures of how it is normally done.

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The ma mb buttons wont work if youve modified it. If you go into the steer setup page and find the pwm steer button i believe this should fire up the cytron if your testing it

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The trouble is that the cytron don’t work at all. It’s powered 12 V in, but it dosen’t give power to the motor. I want to be sure before wiring…

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The cytron looks right. You need to wire the plug that goes with the cytron so the red wire goes to pwm2 on the board. See my picture above. I’m not sure where that is on that board. My picture above shows it but on a different board.

Don’t join the parts you have indicated. You need to add the plug.

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