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1: is this adapter compatible with the ez-b and how does it work?

www.elechouse.com/elechouse/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=90_186&products_id=1007

2:Does anyone have a pic or diagram of a ez-b with 2 battery packs in series/parallel?

3:Does anyone have a pic/diagram of a ez-b with a regulator fan?

4:Mainly for any R2D2 person; What toy did you use?(Dj, which one?)

Rich · Answer

Yes it works. It's quite a complex process to get it working as it requires a virtual com port. Do a search, there is a topic regarding this however the results were inconclusive. There may be more on other topics but it's worth doing a search and seeing what comes up. 2. Parallel you connect the battery +ve and -ve to each other and connect that to the EZB (so both +ve to EZB +ve and both -ve to EZB -ve). Series you connect one batteries +ve to the other's -ve and the other 2 terminals connect to the EZB. Google it, here is one (of many) sites to check out https://www.zbattery.com/Connecting-Batteries-in-Series-or-Parallel 3. https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Hardware.aspx?id=29 4. I can't help you on that one.

CardboardHacker · Answer

thanks @Rich.

CardboardHacker · Answer

so #2 would look like this?

Rich · Answer

That would be parallel which would give you more capacity. i.e. if both were 4.5Ah 6V batteries you would end up with 9Ah 6v.

CardboardHacker · Answer

what i was shooting for thanks. the adapter can take this right?

CardboardHacker · Answer

one more question Have led here Total voltage=1.5+1.5+1.5=4.5 Can i use it on the ez-b?

Robot Doc · Answer

Seems like the minimum dc voltage requirement for the EZ-B is 5 vdc. Most folks go higher than that due to the possibility of a voltage drop at start-up that would drop below the minimum of 5 volts thus possibly making the circuit components very unhappy.

DJ Sures · Answer

I feel that wifi adapter can also be connected to accept TCP over a specific port, rather than a virtual com port. No? We have some, but i haven't used it yet. I thought you can say "EVerything on port 23 is serial data" or soemthing.. That way, you just connect to the IP Address and port in ARC. Like this.. 192.168.0.2:23

thetechguru · Answer

DJ, are you saying in the connection control, where we usually select a com port to communicate with an EZ-B and an IP address to connect to another instance of ARC, we could just define an IP Address and port to connect to a WiFi enabled EZ-B as long as the port in the WiFi board is configured as Serial (TTY?)?

That would certainly solve the issue of trying to find a free/cheap and working virtual com port.

Alan

pittom · Answer

DJ,did you get wifi to work?

Robot Doc · Answer

When populating the menu screens you assign the port number (i.e. 8090) or (23) as DJ mentioned. Then the IP link becomes (192.168.1.18:8090 or 23)

thetechguru · Answer

Thanks Robot-Doc, that simplifies things dramatically. Only problem now is that I need to buy a WiFi board, just when I had decided I would save the money and stick with bluetooth..... Alan

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