Pinout for M12 A-coded connectors on the Amiga switch

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I’ve been having a heck of a time trying to wire up an M12 A coded connector that works with the Amigas switch. Do you have a pinout for those connectors? (Standard Cat cable color to pin #)

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Hi @Mark_Funderburk ,

This document should have the PoE switch pinouts you are looking for.

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If this not sufficient, please share more detail on what exactly you are trying to do and we can give more tailored details.

– Kyle

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Ah thank you,

The actual image you posted doesn’t have enough info to terminate a standard cable but the next page in that document has this:

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Which is exactly what I needed.

Oddly enough, I had looked up the datasheet for the switch before looking for this very information and it was not in there, so it appears there are different versions floating around.

Thanks.

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For those curious, I needed to terminate my own cable to connect the Amiga switch to a remote device on our system with an M12 X-coded connector on the other side. The distance was ~40ft so the same cables for the OAK-d would not have worked.

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Glad to hear that contained the information you needed!

I’ve marked your reply as the solution :white_check_mark:

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Hi Mark, did you have much difficulty creating the cables? We’ve just had a quote from a local supplier of AUD $450 per cable for 8x ~15ft cables which seems insane.

Also, out of interest, what are you connecting to the Amiga? We’re working with a SICK LMS 4000 LiDAR and a SPECIM FX10 Hyperspectral line scanner.

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Making the cable is pretty easy once you know the pinout on each end and have found good quality connectors.

I did find that the pinout in the datasheet was still sort of wrong, but I was able to get it working. I will document and double check what I did and post here later along with part numbers for the connectors and cables I used.

I am connecting to another ethernet switch inside of a waterproof enclosure, I am using an M12 X-coded connector on the enclosure (the same as the oak-d s2 POE cameras use). In the box is many things, but none are particularly relevant to getting the physical Ethernet link going.

The cable is ~40-50ft long and goes through an E-chain on a gantry system.

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Thanks Mark,

We’ve ordered some connectors and will have a go. The plan is to measure the pinout as well just to be extra sure.

Appreciate the reply. Cheers.