[minima] Re: Control Board Questions

  • From: <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: minima@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 02:22:10 -0700

Thanks Thomas, that makes me very happy. I just hooked a pot to the tune
connections and the freq. stopped and works in both directions. I've
been screwing with this little board for a couple of days, now I can get
to work on the main board.  You made my day.  Jerry

K5LRU
Harwood, Texas

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [minima] Re: Control Board Questions
> From: Thomas Sarlandie <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, February 12, 2014 3:08 am
> To: "minima@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <minima@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Jerry,
> 
> This sounds good. The frequency will stop moving if your pot is centered.
> You should have 2.5v on the arduino pin connected to it.
> 
> The second number on the display tells you if the last frequency change was
> a small change or a large change. Basically we can re-program the si570 in
> two ways and this field on the screen just tell us which one was last
> used. It's not very useful now that we know it's working well we will
> probably remove that in the future. What would you like to see instead?
> 
> Congrats!
> 
> Thomas
> 
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014, <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> > What should the control board read on first boot up.  The first line on
> > my LCD reads:( A:  14.2xxxx 2 )
> > and the second line reads: ( USB  TX 1 ) The frequency reading on the
> > first line is changing, it increments up by 100's from the 14.2
> > something up to 99.999, then starts over at 10.100 and keeps cycling
> > like this. On the second line of the display the number 1 after TX
> > changes from a 1 to a 0 with every frequency change.
> > I have nothing hooked to the board but power.  Jerry
> > K5LRU
> > Harwood, Texas
> >
> >
> >

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