It looks like the terminal blocks should be the least of your worries at the moment. To have "industrial strength" system, you should never, ever connect wires directly to the pins of the processor. For each digital input and output you should add at least transistor driver separating the outside circuit from the board, with optoisolation if possible. Analog inputs and outputs should also be buffered. It would be good to add voltage spike protections (diodes, transils) on each of the lines. Optoisolation and spike protection will add ruggedness to your system, however without proper buffering of the signals, most likely you will fry the board in no time.
Regards, Jacek. On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm currently designing a greenhouse automation control unit utilizing the > BBB as the brain. In order to create industrial strength wiring I'd like to > use terminal block connections to each connector on the P8 and P9 headers. > > To give you a visual of what I'd like to do check out a picture of the > terminal block shield for the Arduino Mega. It plugs into the board nicely > and the terminal blocks lay along perimeter of the shield giving the user > access to each input. > > I'm also open to other ideas regarding how to wire up a BBB in a reliable > way suitable for industrial purposes. > > What do you think? > > > The information contained in this transmission contains potentially > privileged, export controlled and/or confidential information of Imageware > Systems, Inc. or its customers or partners. It is intended only to be read > by the person(s) named above and for no other purpose. You are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution, duplication of this > communication or use of its contents for any purpose not authorized > expressly by Imageware Systems, Inc. is strictly prohibited and could lead > to both civil and/or criminal penalties. If you are not the intended > recipient, you are prohibited to review the contents herein and please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. To reply to our e-mail administrator directly, please send an > e-mail to [email protected] > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
