Driver Boards
Driver boards are used to control features (coils, leds/lamps, motors, etc) on a pinball machine or in other applications. They can be driven by a P-ROC and many other programmable microcontroller-type devices.
Each driver board has an RS-485 serial interface so that it can be chained to other driver boards. Therefore, you can use as many boards as your application requires. Further, since the serial interface will continue to work at distances well over 10 feet (100 feet even), you can locate the boards in the backbox, under the playfield, or anywhere else in your machine.
There are 3 types of driver boards:
| Power Driver 16
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Power Driver Matrix 8x8
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Master
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The Power Driver 16 has 16 n-channel MOSFETs for control of up to 16 unique features. The transistors are grouped into two banks of 8. Each bank contains a DC power input, a fused (5x20mm) power output, and flyback diodes.
Power Driver 16 boards are typically used to control individual coils, motors, flashlamps, lamps/leds, etc.
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Documentation, Assembly Drawing
Availability: In stock
Example Usage
* Note - This is just one of many ways to use this board. Each bank can be powered with anything from 5V DC to 80V DC, and you can drive many types of devices.
Example Configurations
Here are a few examples of machine features and the corresponding number of driver boards to control them:
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Game Features |
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128 individually controlled features |
8 | 0 |
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32 individually controlled features 1 8x8 lamp matrix |
2 | 1 |
| 64 individually controlled features
2 8x8 lamp matrixes |
4 | 2 |
| 56 individually controlled features
1 16x8 lamp matrix |
3 | 2 |
For more information, check out the Frequently Asked Driver Board Questions.
