2021-05-21, 09:11 PM
The Pican-M is a good board. The MacArthur HAT has NMEA 2000 in/out, PSU and more.
We considered including a CAN connector but that big an rigid connector caused too much mechanical stress to the HAT. Using a screw terminal you have just to cut the wire and connect H and L terminals.
Our PSU is generally used to power drones and has additional features:
- You can measure voltage and current of your battery bank. Taking power from the CAN bus you can not measure consumption of the whole electrical circuit, just the CAN network consumption. Using our PSU you still can take the power from the CAN wire if you want.
- We will have less electrical interference. We will have IMUs around so it is better to have the DC-DC conversion far away.
- Drone power modules have a very clean output.
we have endeavored to make the price cheaper than boards like the Pican-M with a lot of extra "junk" that you do not know when you will need.
We considered including a CAN connector but that big an rigid connector caused too much mechanical stress to the HAT. Using a screw terminal you have just to cut the wire and connect H and L terminals.
Our PSU is generally used to power drones and has additional features:
- You can measure voltage and current of your battery bank. Taking power from the CAN bus you can not measure consumption of the whole electrical circuit, just the CAN network consumption. Using our PSU you still can take the power from the CAN wire if you want.
- We will have less electrical interference. We will have IMUs around so it is better to have the DC-DC conversion far away.
- Drone power modules have a very clean output.
we have endeavored to make the price cheaper than boards like the Pican-M with a lot of extra "junk" that you do not know when you will need.