TheBloke Posted June 30, 2015 Author Report Posted June 30, 2015 Hey guysI just got my screen attached and the board USB connected to the PC. And customised my start screen, of course All looking fine, except for one odd thing. The main screen of the device - showing ohms, volts, temp and 8.5W - is constantly flashing. Perhaps twice a second, very regular.Other screens are not flashing - eg the welcome screen, and the UPLOAD SETTINGS screen. The up/down buttons work as expected. Settings download/upload works fine.Given it's not all screens flashing, I'm thinking maybe this is expected behaviour - perhaps the flashing is meant to indicate that no power source is connected?I just wanted to check as I'll hopefully be soldering it all tomorrow so better to know sooner or later in the (very) unlikely event this is any issue.Thanks!Tom / TheBloke
John Posted June 30, 2015 Report Posted June 30, 2015 That is the expected behavior when you don't have the battery balancer connection connected.
TheBloke Posted June 30, 2015 Author Report Posted June 30, 2015 Thanks. Will it go away when a PSU is connected?I was asking in another thread if I could use the PSU without attaching the balance connector at all, and was told I could as long as I set it to Power Supply in EScribe.Or is it the case that I technically can, but I'm going to get flashing screen the whole time unless I have a balance connector? And therefore I have to do this three-resistor divider thing to pass a fake input to the balance connector?
John Posted June 30, 2015 Report Posted June 30, 2015 Power supply mode should make the flashing stop. If not that is a bug we'll get cleaned up.
TheBloke Posted June 30, 2015 Author Report Posted June 30, 2015 OK awesome John thanks. To be clear I have selected Power Supply in EScribe (and uploaded), but I don't actually have a PSU connected yet - so perhaps it will stop when I do? Or should just PSU mode alone in EScribe be enough?Anyway I should have it wired to PSU some time tomorrow so I'll update then, either way.Thanks again!
John Posted June 30, 2015 Report Posted June 30, 2015 If it doesn't, let us know, as that would be a bug, but an easy one to clean up.
dwaindablane Posted July 1, 2015 Report Posted July 1, 2015 I can confirm that if powered by a non LiPo 12v battery or by a PSU and selecting power supply mode in the Escribe settings I'm still getting the flashing screen behaviour. Apart from the screen flashing, the board is fully working, fires a kanthol / NI200 build. Also seems to be fine connecting, downloading and uploading via the software without issues.
John Posted July 1, 2015 Report Posted July 1, 2015 Yep, we confirmed this bug and fixed it last night. Look for an update today.
dwaindablane Posted July 1, 2015 Report Posted July 1, 2015 Cheers John for the speedy fix, you guys are the best
TheBloke Posted July 1, 2015 Author Report Posted July 1, 2015 Awesome! Thanks so much. Really happy to see that FW updates are coming out so fast. A superb sign for the future.
TheBloke Posted July 2, 2015 Author Report Posted July 2, 2015 Yay, just updated to 6/30 and the flashing is gone. Thanks again!
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