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The Sun Harvester Shield Breakout Board adds ethernet connections and power supply outputs to your
circuit. This allows you to easily add multiple machines without having to do a lot of extra wiring.
If you want to control up to 4 machines, you will need 1 breakout board.
If you want to control up to 8 machines, you will need 2 breakout boards.
If you want to control up to 12 machines, you will need 3 breakout boards.
If you want to control up to 16 machines, you will need 4 breakout boards.
This section explains how to wire the first breakout board to the Sun Harvester Shield V1.0 and then
how to wire additional breakout boards in addition to the first.

To wire the first breakout board to the Sun Harvester Shield V1.0, plug the included cable into the
input on the right sideand cut off the opposite end of the cable. Warning!: Make sure the red wire on
the cable is on the side marked VCC on the breakoutboard.

You can use a pair of scissors to cut and separate the wires at the end of the cable so that it can reach
the multiple connections on the shield. Once separated, strip the insulation off the ends of these wires
so that you can solder them to the shield.

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States License. the wires from the cable dont connect to anything. These are the wires labeled N.C. (not connected) in

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Figure 2below. Cut the ends of these wires off so they dont accidently cause a short circuit.
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Wiring Multiple Breakout Boards

The Sun Harvester Shield Supports up to 16 machines, and each breakout board supports up to 4
machines. Thus you would need 4 breakout boards to use up all 16 of the machine outputs on the
shield.

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The image below shows all 4 breakout boards wired to the shield. You can of course use less if you
dont need to control as many machines.
To add another breakout board to the circuit, use the included cable to connect the second board to the
first making sure that the side of the cable with the red wire goes to VCC on both of the boards. Also,
make sure to wire the screw terminals on the left side of the shield to the screw terminals at the top
middle of the breakout board.

Fill the screw terminals on the shield from top to bottom. So for the first breakout board fill up the top
four of the shields screw terminals. For the second breakout board, fill the next four empty terminals
closest to the top. You can continue in this manner until the shields terminals are completely filled.
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