We're going to have to do a little bit of re-work here, most of the internal wiring is pretty good but there's some infrastructure change happening so there's going to be some minor changes on the inside, creating a proper bus like system would be good, I guess this all sort of depends on how the RP blades go (racks for hardware in the tube). However the external wiring is a mess, the blue patch box initially seemed like a good idea but using it the way it was intended was just too stressful and the motor patch system is massive overkill and it looks terrible and it weighs a ton.
So plan out the new wiring system and write a Wiki about how it all goes together. We could use this thread to discuss wiring ideas.
Ideas put forward
Tether capability, we could probably power the logic over the Ethernet tether there are 4 spare wires in the cable and PoE standard is 15W. This would save us a lot of time testing if we could tether the motor power as well, in which case we would need a bit beefier cable than what we have.
GarethG
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12 years ago
We're going to have to do a little bit of re-work here, most of the internal wiring is pretty good but there's some infrastructure change happening so there's going to be some minor changes on the inside, creating a proper bus like system would be good, I guess this all sort of depends on how the RP blades go (racks for hardware in the tube). However the external wiring is a mess, the blue patch box initially seemed like a good idea but using it the way it was intended was just too stressful and the motor patch system is massive overkill and it looks terrible and it weighs a ton.
So plan out the new wiring system and write a Wiki about how it all goes together. We could use this thread to discuss wiring ideas.
Ideas put forward