Re: [Usbpicprog-technical] new PCB and current software status

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,

Frans Schreuder ha scritto:
> I have just married, so in the last couple of weeks I had some other 
> things to do :)
;) great, congratulations then!


> I have already changed the circuitry of the voltage pump, but I am 
> afraid that a voltage divider would unnecessarily take current from the 
> voltage pump.
that's true, indeed... maybe we could then have a "test pump mode" command in 
the firmware that makes the pump active so that one can test the UPP pump with 
its voltmeter without troubles of having to connect a PIC to it, issue a long 
programming command, etc etc.
The GUI would be a simple menu item under "Actions" named "Test charge pump" or 
something like that, whose effect would be to popup a modal dialog "Test the 
voltage on PIN 5 of the ICSP header; it should be 12V+/-xx%; click Cancel when 
done".

> By the way, I have not released the 0.3 yet, because it 
> needs some additional changes in the values of some resistors and some 
> last checkups.
ok! I'll wait then!

> I will check the latest software tomorrow!
Good!
Note that I've marked with FIXME a couple of points in the source code; in 
particular in hardware.cpp line 712 I suspect there could be a bug...

Bye,
Francesco


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