Redbellyjx
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I bought an older Apex last week, and last night I started setting it up. I wiped the memory from it, upgraded the firmware, upgraded my apex dashboard and linked it to apex. Wow. I felt like an IT personnel after doing all of that.
I had made a DIY breakout box using a Mini DIN 8 pin cable and a terminal strip.
First I used a DMM to figure out which wire coordinated with which pin.
After I had it assembled, I fired up fusion, and it was showing switches 1 through 6 as "Open". Then I shorted each position to ground to see if the switches would change to closed. They didn't.
So I am thinking two options: 1) Apex isnt recognizing it as a module (do I need to manual add it, or is it plug and play?)
or 2) I didn't wire it correctly. I noticed on all of the DIYs there are only 8 wires. Pin 7 isnt used and 8 is the ground. My cable has 9 wires- i for each of the 8 pins, plus a bare wire that is connected to the metal shield of the connector. I didn't think of it last night, but does this bare wire need to be grounded as well?
I had made a DIY breakout box using a Mini DIN 8 pin cable and a terminal strip.
First I used a DMM to figure out which wire coordinated with which pin.
After I had it assembled, I fired up fusion, and it was showing switches 1 through 6 as "Open". Then I shorted each position to ground to see if the switches would change to closed. They didn't.
So I am thinking two options: 1) Apex isnt recognizing it as a module (do I need to manual add it, or is it plug and play?)
or 2) I didn't wire it correctly. I noticed on all of the DIYs there are only 8 wires. Pin 7 isnt used and 8 is the ground. My cable has 9 wires- i for each of the 8 pins, plus a bare wire that is connected to the metal shield of the connector. I didn't think of it last night, but does this bare wire need to be grounded as well?
