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short TX & RX

2009-07-13T13:08:00+01:00

Hey

Just a quick explanation on the pics above:

The pic on the bottom shows the connector that ships with roboard. It is the connector for COMM3 and it comes with 4 wires: two for power and two for RX and TX. What they short there is RX and TX and the connect them all - GND, Vdd and DATA (which is RX+TX) - to the Bioloid connector.

I had never seen the connector they use in the 2nd and 3rd pics but it looks like a standard connector.

Another solution is getting a Bioloid cable, cutting the connectors on one end and soldering the wires from the Bioloid Cable directly to the wires of the Roboard connector (the one on the pic at the bottom).
This way you get a cable that connects directly onto the servo socket.

You'll probably want to make it a Y cable with 2 or 3 Servo connectors for added flexibility.

Regards
Pedro.

Statistics: Posted by PedroR — Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:08 pm

short TX & RX

2009-07-13T12:01:40+01:00

see the reference connection

Statistics: Posted by roboard — Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:01 pm

short TX & RX

2009-07-13T08:52:30+01:00

Shorting them is absolutely fine on the condition that you ensure that the TX line is tri-stated when you're not transmitting. It's probably also worth putting a series resistor on the bus so that if someone else does transmit at the same time you don't blow one of the transmitters up.

If you were to put the series resistor between the TX and RX and then connect the RX to the bus you could even deliberately receive your own transmissions and see if they're different to your intended transmission. The 'collision' would cause packet corruption and with clever (but well documented) algorithms you can retry the transmission.

Statistics: Posted by StuartL — Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:52 am

short TX & RX

2009-07-12T16:07:55+01:00

For communication with ax-12 using com 3 it is necessary to short TX & RX, which is the best way to do so through connecting wires or soldeting tx and rx together?

Thanks

Statistics: Posted by JavaRN — Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:07 pm