need alot of help with dongle drivers

[trekster]

Holland, don't give up so easy.  I am about 36 miles away.  We could meet and look at your problem.  I could bring my dongle and my laptop so we could narrow down the problem.

Ron

[Rainlover]

Have faith. It is probably something simple. With all the help here, you will figure it out.

John

[holland lights]

Holland, don't give up so easy.  I am about 36 miles away.  We could meet and look at your problem.  I could bring my dongle and my laptop so we could narrow down the problem.

Ron

but 36 miles is so long aways lol

[holland lights]

pictures of board

[holland lights]

pictures of board 2

[holland lights]

pictures. Its just not bright in here

[memphislights]

Only soldering issue that was obvious to me was...

A few of the other joints looked a little "cold" though, but it is hard to tell in the picture.

[holland lights]

I dont see any bad joints though

[tbone321]

One problem that some of them had was a bad crystal.  You would need a scope to find that problem.  The board looks good otherwise.  You might want to contact the person that lives near you and work with him.  At least that way you will know if it is the dongle or the PC.

[holland lights]

yea i build my own stuff. im into electronics, but no i dont have that type of testing equipment. yea theres 2 guys here that would probally help me figure it out.

[holland lights]

ok i put it back in the programmer and loaded the hex file and in pic kit 3 program i clicked the power on button like usual, then i clicked this button called /mclr and it programed it and i can red from the chip. Now when i plug it in,I Got THE GREEN LIGHT TO COME ON, but both the green and red light stays on solid. But vixen doesnt freeze up now while running.

[Rainlover]

Sounds to me like you got it.
Way to go!

John

[holland lights]

so the green light is supposed to stay on solid to when nothing is hooked to it.

[bisquit476]

so the green light is supposed to stay on solid to when nothing is hooked to it.

Yep

Per RJ last year: "This is a transmitter so it does not show if a cable is connected or not. It is on (meaning the green light) if DMX is being transmitted. It is transmitting even with out a cable connected".

[rrowan]

Once the dongle is up and running it still sends out the DMX data even if its just all zeros

Its a hard worker, not a lazy state worker like myself LOL

Cheers

Rick R.