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ROBOT . HEAD to TOE 

Product User’s Manual – 

G15 Shield R2

 

 

 

 

 

G15 Shield 

SHIELD-G15 Rev2.0 

 

 

User's Manual 

 

V1.0 

 

April 2015 

 

 

 

 

Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn. Bhd. – All Right Reserved

 

 

Summary of Contents for Shield-G15

Page 1: ...ROBOT HEAD to TOE Product User s Manual G15 Shield R2 G15 Shield SHIELD G15 Rev2 0 User s Manual V1 0 April 2015 Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd All Right Reserved 1 ...

Page 2: ...duction 3 2 Packing List 4 3 Product Specification and Limitation 5 4 Board or Product Layout 6 5 Dimension 8 6 Half Duplex Serial Communication 9 7 Hardware Installation 11 8 Getting Started 13 9 Warranty 1 4 Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd All Right Reserved 2 ...

Page 3: ...ch can be daisy chained for more servos G15 Shield has external motor power port for user to supply separate power for the servos besides using the internal power from the Arduino board G15 Shield has stackable side headers which allows for more Arduino shields to be stacked on top of it G15 Shield R2 comes with Arduino Reset button 4 x G15 Cube Servo ports two extra on Rev2 0 G15 control pin sele...

Page 4: ...PACKING LIST Please check the parts and components according to the packing lists If there are any parts missing please contact us at sales cytron com my immediately 1 1 x G15 Shield 2 3 x mini jumper Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd All Right Reserved 4 ...

Page 5: ... s Manual G15 Shield R2 3 0 PRODUCT SPECIFICATION AND LIMITATIONS Parameter Min Typical Max Unit Logic Voltage 5 V Servo Motor s Voltage 7 12 15 V Servo Motor s Current 5 A Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd All Right Reserved 5 ...

Page 6: ...wer for easy setup and test It will take the power Voltage and Current from Arduino Vin pin However user may desolder internal power connection and solder the MPWR pad to external motor power pad EXT pad if user want external power for motor 3 Stackable Digital I O header This header pin is Digital I O pin stacked to the Arduino main board 4 G15 Control pin User may choose D2 or D8 as the control ...

Page 7: ... to the Arduino main board is within the operating range of the servo motor 9 TX Pin Selector User may select D1 D3 D9 or D11 as the TX pin from Arduino main board with the mini jumper 10 Reset button Reset button is for convenience of user to reset the Arduino main board 11 Motor Power LED Power indicator LED for motor power The LED will turn on when power for motor is supply either through inter...

Page 8: ...ROBOT HEAD to TOE Product User s Manual G15 Shield R2 5 0 DIMENSION Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd All Right Reserved 8 ...

Page 9: ...eive mode as shown by the figure below Besides TX and RX pin main controller will need one digital output pin as the control pin The implementation is as shown by the logic circuit below TX and RX bus is merged into one single data bus On G15 Shield there are options to select either pin D2 or D8 as the control pin G15 CTRL Choose the pin by moving the mini jumper to the corresponding headers If t...

Page 10: ... R2 The following flowchart shows the communication flow for G15 Cube Servo The control pin can be either D2 or D8 For the communication protocol please refer to G15 Cube Servo User s Manual Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd All Right Reserved 10 ...

Page 11: ...ts the Processing Wiring language G15 Shield can be used together with Arduino Uno to control G15 Cube servo motor Figure below shows example hardware connection between Arduino Uno and G15 Shield it is simply stacking up the shield onto the main board 1 Set TX RX and CTRL pin for Shield G15 The selection is done by using mini jumper on board Please be cautious to initialize the correct Arduino s ...

Page 12: ...d R2 3 Supply power to Arduino main board The PWR LED will light up in green colour Connect G15 Cube Servo after loading user firmware to the Arduino main board as shown in the figure below Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd All Right Reserved 12 ...

Page 13: ...tutorial link to getting started with G15 and Shield G15 The tutorial is using Shield G15 Revision1 http tutorial cytron com my 2012 11 27 getting started withcube servo g15 http tutorial cytron com my 2014 07 17 testing your cube servo Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd All Right Reserved 13 ...

Page 14: ...under warranty Warranty does not cover freight cost for both ways Prepared by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd No 16 Jalan Industri Ringan Permatang Tinggi 2 Kawasan Industri Ringan Permatang Tinggi 14100 Simpang Ampat Penang Malaysia Tel 604 504 1878 Fax 604 504 0138 URL www cytron com my Email support cytron com my sales cytron com my Created by Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd All Right Reserved 14 ...

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