Mamba - Narrow Band Powerline Communication Shield for Arduino

Introduction

LinkSprite's Narrowband Powerline Communication shield can be controlled by Arduino board using SPI interface. You can build your own powerline communication application using this shield.

Model:Mamba_PLC_Shield

Cautions

High voltage present if you connect to main power.

Specification

• The board is designed to work with 110/240V, 50/60Hz.

• An 1A wall adaptor is needed.

Usage

Programming

To use Mamba, you need two Mamba shields and two Arduino uno.

Arduino IDE can be downloaded from: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software. In this guide, we are going to use IDE 22.

The serial terminal software X-CTU can be downloaded from: http://www.linksprite.com/pub/software/setup_xctu_5100.exe

Please download the sample code from: https://github.com/linksprite/mamba

Please remove:

arduino-0022\hardware\arduino\cores\arduino\WInterrupts.cIn arduino IDE, open mamba_arduino\mamba_arduino.pde and compile the code:

Open X-CTU, we will see two Unos with their COM ports.

Load the code to two unos through the IDE by selecting correct COM ports.

After this step, the LED RDY on the mamba shield will turn on, which means the powerline communication chip is initialized and ready.

FAQ

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Support

If you have questions or other better design ideas, you can go to our forum to discuss or creat a ticket for your issue at linksprite support.

See Also

Other related products and resources.

Licensing

This documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Source code and libraries are licensed under GPL/LGPL, see source code files for details.