CAN BUS Shield on Arduino Mega

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I purchased a CAN BUS Shield and originally was planning to use is with the UNO. I have now decided that I would like to use it with the Arduino Mega. I have interchanged other shields in the past and they have worked fine. When I try to use the CAN BUS Shield on the mega I can not read or right to the SD Card.

I have looked over the SparkFun_SD_Demo and I am confused on what I should do.

SparkFun_SD_Demo says :

* SD card attached to SPI bus as follows:

** MOSI - pin 11

** MISO - pin 12

** CLK - pin 13

** CS - pin 4

On the Ethernet Shield, CS is pin 4. Note that even if it’s not

// used as the CS pin, the hardware CS pin (10 on most Arduino boards,

// 53 on the Mega) must be left as an output or the SD library

// functions will not work.

// Chip Select pin is tied to pin 9 on the SparkFun CAN-Bus Shield

I read this and wonder What pin is CS? 4,10, 53, or 9???

I assume this is where my problem is.

From what I have read, on the Mega the pins are as followed

MOSI-51

MISO-50

CLK-52

CS-53

Do I have to patch a line for each of these?

Should I patch a line from 9 on the CAN BUS Shield over to 53 on the mega?

Can someone explain the best way to do this?

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Any help would be appreciated… I cant believe this shield does not work with a mega…

3

This is a common problem with shields that use SPI. Yes, you will need to patch those pins to the correct pins on the Mega.

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I am using Arduino Mega with CAN BUS shield and my connections are as follows

10-53

11-51

12-50

13-52

Leave pin 9(SS)without any connection

Also you have to change the pin configuration in defaults.h in the library folder for it work