Hey all, I have no components and just a little experience and would like to put a complete system together. I am struggling to sort through old and new information and have no experience ordering electronic components. I would rather avoid waiting for delivery only to find i neglected necessary parts or purchased something obsolete. If anyone would be willing to share the current best components along with links to order I know that would greatly help me in getting started. For example, I’ve seen many suggest the ardusimple rtk boards but several different ones are linked to… which one is right? I’m sure all of them have a place where they are best but I just want to know which one will work best with a set of componets to make a functional, reliable system.
What I would ultimately like to do is have RTK correction fed to agopengps and a precision planting 20/20 monitor, and have agopengps control steering. The tractor I am using is a case ih 7120 with no current system.
That is great and gave me just what I wanted as a starting point. Most things are making sense but I still don’t understand why there are two options in the standard or micro… will standard be easier for my fat clumsy hands to work with?
Just refers to ardusimple gps board type. I use standard rtk2b with XLR base station. If you have some close to u broadcasting rtk corrections, and have good cell service. You can use the micro with ntrip.
You can use standard or micro on NTRIP. Either is fine, but you might find it easier to go for Standard if you want to get going rather than wait for a group buy.
So when ordering my boards I see an ads1115 breakout board listed in the bill of materials… is this now integrated or do I need to buy one? Also “12v JP2”, and “24v JP3”, are these something special I need to order? I also don’t understand the meaning of “bynav minimal”.
You don’t need an ADS1115, it is SMD on the AIO PCB already.
12V and 24V jumpers are two solder pads, you bridge between the pads with solder to make a circuit, selecting 12 or 24V, you do not need any additional parts
ByNav minimal is an alternative GPS receiver to the F9P, I do not know of anyone using this, so just ignore it, you don’t need it assuming you use an Ardusimple F9P.
Where did I miss the list of capacitors and diodes and other little stuff that I need to order to build this board. I guess I thought if they didn’t say they were short it would be included but it sure seems like I’m missing a lot of parts…
So there is hope for me yet. Good to know. So if there is a super little component on the top side I’m good, but if there is nothing like these two capacitors and the resistor below them I have a problem?
In this case you have to ways to find the direction of the IC.
First clue is the square solder pad that tells that is pin 1, the other way is to see on the print where you have a notch down on the image, that tells that is the side pin 1 is placed.
To identify pin 1 on the IC you see the dot on the top of the IC, thats pin 1.
Except for the teensy ethernet headers which are smaller than all the others I appear to have not screwed up too bad. I’ve never soldered a pcb before so that is a steep learning curve. The bill of materials stated I needed a MP1584EN. I bought it and cannot figure out where it goes.
