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Hardware => Lynx Aether => Topic started by: vairmoose on December 12, 2010,
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Needless to say ...... this is one of those AWWWWWWWW CHIT moments.
I'll be splicing in 16awg wire ....
but now ............. i'm gonna to just enjoy my morning coffee....
Larry
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Bummer... at least you have Aether to burn Larry!
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Hi Larry
Sorry you had a major problem
I was thinking for a moment I was going to have to lock this thread
LOL
Cheers
Rick R.
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Hey Moose
You are only suppose to beta test beta products and NOT production products LOL
Cheers
Rick R.
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Tell me this is something caused by a person or animal or other than the Aether itsself
RJ
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Tell me this is something caused by a person or animal or other than the Aether itsself
RJ
Call it a Moose-adventure. Happened while troubleshooting the cat5 connection (not getting solid data stream into the chip from the RJ45 connectors. With power on, I turned to pick up the VM and my robe caught the corner of the enclosure.... tipping the whole thing over...... and the next thing is that I see a flash..... The only thing conductive that was near the flash was .01 dia solder. After the flash, the solder wire was a little bit shorter. No other "obvious" damage.
Larry
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Good! <wd..
It still does not match the carnage of Aussies FS <md.. 240v is nasty stuff!
RJ
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Well call me silly
I thought the Ka-BOOM protocol was removed
Does the Lynx Line come with a Moose Clause?
Cheers
Rick R.
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Larry soooo sorry to here you had this happen <md..
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.... and my robe caught the corner of the enclosure....
I thought sorcerers were supposed to use their wands to fix things and not let their robes get in the way.
I have not even started to build my first aether yet, I've got a lot to learn.
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Damage was limited to just the one piece of the one trace and one fuse.. Now i'm back to searching for that RJ45 weak link that is corrupting the data connection.
The one thing that I do not want to do is to desolder the RJ45 connectors but I'm starting to suspect that I will have to . I've been following the traces under magnifying glass and have not found any extra blobs of solder that jump the track. I have cleaned up the soldering (bad job) under the resistors and capacitor that are in the signal area. Ditto on the pic (damaged the orignal pic during the desolder) ...
sorry guys.... there will be no pics on this area of the board.... (it reallly is not pretty) .
Larry
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how about using your meter to see if something is missing from the rj-45 to points on the pcb?
Too early to remember what on the rj-45 goes to the areas on the pcb
Cheers
Rick R.
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how about using your meter to see if something is missing from the rj-45 to points on the pcb?
Too early to remember what on the rj-45 goes to the areas on the pcb
Cheers
Rick R.
This morning I did a quick check (with power off) and there is less than 1 ohm resistance between matching pins on the two RJ45 connectors and I did not see any obvious connectivity between the RJ45 pins and ground/neutral. Tonight, I'll test resistance from the RJ45 pin to the PIC chip (and any other pathways that seem even slightly logical).
Larry
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Aether #2 FULLY OPERATIONAL............ :o :o :o :o
and i'm seeing red, green, blue white spots................ and not necesarily in that order.
No that I have one that works....... I can go back to the one I messed to figure out what when wrong.
DANGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG that thing is BRIGHT when you look at it .
Larry.
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Greetings,,,
Congrats, oh great woodland creature.
;D
Keith
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Congrats on the second aether
Sometimes late at night I swear your icon is going to run me over
Cheers
Rick R.
Rick got ran over by a Moose it happen one December night. You might not believe in ...... (you know the rest of the song)
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Tonight I found the elusive string/bridge that was causing my first aether attempt to go bust. I had to desolder pins 1 through 14 of the PIC24 chip... lift up the chip enough to clean under the chip body and then... resolder it (without creating a lake of lead ..... ) 30 minutes later......... done....... and now I have white on command...... red, green and blue at whatever level I desire.... Massive feeling of AWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwww yeesssSSS! (I missed the existing bridge that tied pins 8 though 12 together through either an unlucky series of missteps or non-steps and then finally found the problem by trying something different . )
Still have to finish assembling the enclosure but the hard part is now over ......
Thanks for the guidance and suggestions RJ, Bill and Rick. Sometimes just a little positive support is enough to go the extra few steps.
Larry
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Nice job Larry, 2 Aethers to create an artificial sun ;D