I really just goof around in my garage and but I have always been fascinated by military tanks since I was a kid. I always thought it would be really cool to own one, but how would you do that? Build one of course. After my my Dad passed last year I promised myself I would simply not undertake something simply because I didn't know how to do it or didn't have the budget for it. Hence here we are today, and after starting and bumbling on a few other project - this is it.
Here we are today, inspired by so many others that are putting the hard work into their crazy cool projects. I've been learning a TON along the way - welding, fabrication, electronics, its been a real brain buster.
The giveaway was a bit ago so don't pay attention to that.
Made some really good progress last night - takes a lot of time to pin everything out, but getting there and have the latest code uploaded too. Also got the wrong pedal from an ebay seller and can't find the connector or the pin out for this guy - If anybody knows that would be awesome!
If nobody knows that pinout, here's the general howto: It's got 6 pins like all of those pedals, just use a resistor (maybe 1k or something) to limit current (or a current limited power supply set at 10mA or something) and by trial and error you should be able to find which pin is which. It should have 2 sets of GND, 5V and signal in probably some really weird order. Plug in GND and current-limited 5V to some pins, and if it isn't pulling 5V totally to ground, see if one of the pins is outputting a signal. Rinse and repeat.
celeron55 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 4:07 pm
If nobody knows that pinout, here's the general howto: It's got 6 pins like all of those pedals, just use a resistor (maybe 1k or something) to limit current (or a current limited power supply set at 10mA or something) and by trial and error you should be able to find which pin is which. It should have 2 sets of GND, 5V and signal in probably some really weird order. Plug in GND and current-limited 5V to some pins, and if it isn't pulling 5V totally to ground, see if one of the pins is outputting a signal. Rinse and repeat.
Thanks i'll see if I can figure it out - our just use a pot for testing while I figure this part out
Soooooo - I have have spent many many hours trying to figure out my inverter and think I may have a dead unit its very frustrating and annoying. I like 99.999999% sure my wiring is correct as I have gone over it 4 times. While there still might be something I don't see that's wrong, I don't think that's it. To the point that I have bought another wire harness and making a new one, taking a stupid amount of time building it.
first thing I did was apply voltage to everything 12-13v to the VCU and invertor where it's needed and 66V to the inverter
set everything up and all seemed well - then nothing! I can't seem to get anything on the inverter. I have done everything I can think of. I bought a new wire harness to make a very clean one and i'll try that but I don't think it's the wires. I'll get it eventually but I was hoping to get the transmission spinning so I can install it and know it's working.
Tracked tank powered by a GS450H
its very frustrating and annoying. I like 99.999999% sure my wiring is correct as I have gone over it 4 times. While there still might be something I don't see that's wrong, I don't think that's it. To the point that I have bought another wire harness and making a new one, taking a stupid amount of time building it.
