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
      • 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.