Hi …I have purchased the Vex Transmitter/Receiver package to use with a Dimension Engineering Sabretoth 2x60 motor controller. I need to know which pins on the receiver connector are Ground, Power and Signal so I can hook it up to the Sabretooth. Please provide by color code what the pinouts are. Thx, RH
Am I going to get answer on this?
HeadRC,
I apologize about the late response.
The 276-2153 Transmitter & Receiver Kit is designed to control the VEX PIC Microcontroller or the VEX Cortex Microcontroller. The Transmitter’s six controls are combined and come out of the Receiver as one stream. The Sabertooth needs independent inputs. Please contact Dimension Engineering for their recommendations on suitable Radio Control transmitters and receivers.
-Eli
MMM …so the receiver is self powering? Does not compute. One of these pins has got to be power and one ground …at the very least. Then as far as combination of signal …the Dimension will work in mixed mode …so one of the other leads cannot give this? Or are you basically saying you do not want to give this information …so that I have to buy a Vex micro controller?
The Receiver would normal connect to the RX1 or RX2 Port on the Microcontroller. Here is a Link to the RX1 and RX2 pinout on the Microcontroller located on our Forum:
Also, a low cost way of breaking out the Receiver data stream to individual PWMs is to use the 276-2217 Signal Splitter. The yellow, green, red and white wires are +5vdc, receiver data, ground and ground. The signal splitter provides a 10k pull-up on the receiver data line. For reference, the yellow Signal Splitter wire is closest to the “V” in the VEX logo of the receiver and white is closest to the “X”.
Ok …that helps …thank you. I will try to work with this information.
So as I understand this information then … on the cable that comes with the receiver …
Pin One is a White lead and is +5 volts
Pin two is a Red lead and is the receiver signal
Pin three is a green lead and is ground
Pin four is a yellow lead and is tether detect
Please confirm …
Or …looking at your info above …it is the opposite of this?
And lastly …the splitter you suggested requires 7.2 volts it seems. So the 5v coming from the Sabertooth won’t work for it. Does the receiver then run off of the 7.2V for the splitter?
Ok …so that wasn’t the last question …looking at the splitter …what I need is two separate signals from the receiver for the two motors …so I will need to know the colored coded pinout for that coming off the receiver connectors