
Bookmaker
Hello,
I bought a camera on line and the inside looks like the Konig that JD has in Wall-e. However I think the on off switch may be dirrerent. ON mine the switch momentarily (2 seconds) grounds the hot lead out and turns the camera on and by repeating the process it turns it off. In a previous thread Nicolosn said to run both the hot and the ground to a digital port and pluging into the ground and signal pins and use a "Set" control to ground it out for a few seconds. Well, it does turn it on for a second but then immediately truns is off. I checked the signal and as suspected it is a pulse. On DJ's he simply took the hot and sent it to a digital port. It works fine if I just ground the wire for a few seonds. I took the battery out so the camera would shut down when off. Is this my problem?
How about your new EZ-B camera. How does the on off swithch work on it??
Well, as described above that is what I was trying to do however it truns it on but then a second later it goes off. Any idea why?
In wall-e for example, i keep the line high for ever because i have no reason for it to turn off
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Have you connected both +5, GND and Switch wires? maybe it's turning off because the battery has been removed and there is no power to it.
Post a pic of your board with the wires connected. Let's take a look
I am sure I have it right. I think I will try hooking up the battery again. Do any of you have the 4 LED's out front like mine?
This camera has IR LED's for night vision so not identical to mine and not sure why you have 4 wires connected? On mine the red servo lead you have cut short goes to the button pin on the PCB the non ground one. That way you only need 1 EZ-B port to power the camera and switch it on and off. In fact it always powered from the EZ-B once the lead is plugged in so you definitely shouldn't need the battery.
Perhaps prod about the button pins with a meter to see what pins do what sounds like you are nearly there though
Actually the white wire is the hot lead and the fourth wire is just another ground per a suggestion from another board member.
try the sequence in this video, it should work: ON, OFF, Pause 2 seconds, ON.
And now having the ez-b eliminates the need to use the fish in any robotic project.