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Peaking Under The Hood Of My V4 Ezb

Hi all,

I just unpacked ny new V4 EZB and thought I'd shoot a video of what it looks loke up close and with all the plastic caseing taken off. I wanted to get ths posted last night but Youtube took forever to up load. Enjoy:


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#1  

Thanks Dave!

I don't know much about it myself since I don't have mine in my hands yet but to answer some of your questions;

The 3 ports you said you don't know what they are, I believe these are the three I2C ports. The black one to the side I assume is the UART port.

DJ has previously mentioned it's centre positive on the jack, just to confirm what you said.

I'd say it's a 20A fuse, the EZ-B passes through the voltage so chances are you may want to pull a lot of current. A 20A fuse will still blow very quickly if there is a problem. As far as I am aware a fuse is a fuse, an amp is an amp regardless of country.

It's 3.3v on the ADC/I2C ports.

Love how it looks, so neat! And my concerns about it's height are put to rest, I didn't realise it was the power base in the photo I saw of it. Since I plan to not use the base and just have a mini deans connector in my robot it should just plug right in and be that bit shallower.

#2  

Thanks for adding your knowledge to the statments I made and the questions I asked Rich. Glad it was of some help and enjoyent to you. ;)

#3  

Instead of another EZB4 thread I'll just add a couple of more pictures into Daves' post. I did take one EZB4 apart, moved the large capacitor (resettable fuse) up a little, desoldered the power connector and added a couple of power leads to help relocate the way power can be connected. Don't forget to add fused protection between the EZB4 and your battery source.

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#4  

Guys... nice, thanks... And Dave... LOL...We use the same fuses and such as you Yanks do... Nothing special here... That is indeed a run-of-the-mill 20amp fuse...

Richard

#5  

Thanks guy's for taking the time to share video and pictures.

:):):):) j

#6  

Ok, I am jealous, where the heck is mine? It's floating around in some factory in China :-{ Thank you for the information and the pictures and the extra comments :-}

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#7  

Another thing to keep in mind is the speaker is a spring loaded contact design integrated into the plastic housing. No housing, no speaker.

I'm sure one could solder wires and add an external speaker if required.

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#8  

@Lumpy, I'm sure all the modifications to the board will slowly come once people get hold of theirs and start adapting them to suit their needs:)