wire Reef Angel Relay Box to Mega
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 11:33 am
Hello everyone,
My name is Jason and this is my first post so i apologize if I put it in the wrong discussion area. I decided it would be fun to have a pet project and build my own aquarium controller....and then I came upon the Reef Angel site. I currently have an Arduino Mega, TinyRTC from Sainsmart, a 7" Sainsmart touch screen LCD, the multi-circuit board from Atlas scientific along with their PH and EZO chips with sensors, and a temp probe also from Atlas. Everything is connected and so far everything is working great! I would like to start incorporating some of the products that the Reef Angel offers such as the 8 outlet Relay Box.
So now to my question....I would like to add the relay box to my project but I do not want to build my own due to lack of knowledge and confidence. I would feel much safer buying the one that was professionally made by Reef Angel. I contacted Reef Angel and asked if i could connect their 8 socket relay box directly to a mega and they said YES.....they also mentioned to look at the eagle files on their site to see the pinouts for the box. I have stared at those schematics and i will admit I still have no idea how to interpret them. I could take some guesses but I wanted to post here to see if anyone has done this. If anyone can help me determine what the pinouts are on the relay box and what they correspond to on the Arudiuno Mega side I would greatly appreciate it.
Please let me know if you need more information. I have Googled everything i can think of but still cannot find a definitive answer as to how to wire it up. Thanks again!
Jason
My name is Jason and this is my first post so i apologize if I put it in the wrong discussion area. I decided it would be fun to have a pet project and build my own aquarium controller....and then I came upon the Reef Angel site. I currently have an Arduino Mega, TinyRTC from Sainsmart, a 7" Sainsmart touch screen LCD, the multi-circuit board from Atlas scientific along with their PH and EZO chips with sensors, and a temp probe also from Atlas. Everything is connected and so far everything is working great! I would like to start incorporating some of the products that the Reef Angel offers such as the 8 outlet Relay Box.
So now to my question....I would like to add the relay box to my project but I do not want to build my own due to lack of knowledge and confidence. I would feel much safer buying the one that was professionally made by Reef Angel. I contacted Reef Angel and asked if i could connect their 8 socket relay box directly to a mega and they said YES.....they also mentioned to look at the eagle files on their site to see the pinouts for the box. I have stared at those schematics and i will admit I still have no idea how to interpret them. I could take some guesses but I wanted to post here to see if anyone has done this. If anyone can help me determine what the pinouts are on the relay box and what they correspond to on the Arudiuno Mega side I would greatly appreciate it.
Please let me know if you need more information. I have Googled everything i can think of but still cannot find a definitive answer as to how to wire it up. Thanks again!
Jason