Tesla Giraffe

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The Tesla Giraffe rev. B was created by @appleguru.

On top of creating the right pin connections between Panda and the approproate Tesla CAN Bus, it has a number of other nice features:

  • automatically connects EPAS conenctor back to Chassis CAN bus when no Panda is present
  • offers connector for CAN2 on Panda which is used for Tesla Bosch Radar
  • has 12V power out which can be used to power the Tesla Bosch Radar via relay
  • has the Comma RJ45 FakeEthernet CAN connector to connect the Comma Pedal
  • has 8 GPIO outputs that can be used to drive certain other accessories; the 8th GPIO is used in our Panda firmware for "ignition power" which can be used to drive the relay needed for Tesla Bosch Radar power
  1. J8 RJ45 GPIO Pinout:

| RJ45 Pin Number / 568B Color | Function | | ---------------------------- | ---------- | | 1 / Orange/White | OUT3 | | 2 / Orange | OUT1 | | 3 / Green / White | OUT4 | | 4 / Blue | OUT2 | | 5 / Blue/White | OUT5 | | 6 / Green | OUT6 | | 7 / Brown/White | Fused +12V | | 8 / Brown (and Shield) | GND |


  1. J7 RJ45 Comma Pinout:

| RJ45 Pin Number / 568B Color | Function | | ----------------------------- | ------------- | | 1 / Orange/White (and Shield) | GND | | 2 / Orange | Fused +12V | | 3 / Green / White | EPAS CAN - | | 4 / Blue | No Connection | | 5 / Blue/White | GND | | 6 / Green | EPAS CAN+ | | 7 / Brown/White | CAN2+ | | 8 / Brown | CAN2- |

You can order your Tesla Giraffe from @appleguru.