MR16 board troubleshooting

[wirekat]

Thanks Rick!

I'll program a pic and drop it in...

That was it. I now have Blinky Flashy.

Thanks Rick and thank you all for your assistance!

[wirekat]

One final comment.
I guess programming the starting address was harder than I thought but once I had the HEX file that started at channel one that was it. Now I have successfully programmed a board to another channel and it works great.

On another note. I did manage to hook up the board bassawards which blew the voltage regulator. I even used red and black wires but I used red spade connectors. Now I have a red spade connector colored black with a sharpie so I will make it harder to screw up next time.

Thanks to all for comments and to RJ for the suggestion and to Rick for posting the HEX!!!

[rrowan]

Hi Kevin,

Glad it worked for you.

Wondering if a diode on the power in spades would help protect the regulator?

Cheers

Rick R.

[wirekat]

Hi Kevin,

Glad it worked for you.

Wondering if a diode on the power in spades would help protect the regulator?

Cheers

Rick R.

You could make it idiot proof but us idiots are so ingenious 
I think I'm so spoiled by the Lynx Express that all my boards need status leds and such...

[RJ]

Glad you got it working. Somewhere along the way when updating the firmware forgot to assign a channel before posting it. This will help later builders also.

RJ

[RJ]

Hi Kevin,

Glad it worked for you.

Wondering if a diode on the power in spades would help protect the regulator?

Cheers

Rick R.

If I end up doing additional pcbs for it later I will add it along with a few other items. 

RJ