Recent content by mushroom

Phil Hornby. Just saw your pics in posts 78 and 80. I haven't kept up with versions of the board but in the past have found these great, easy. The pic in post 78 has a crystal with 30,000 on it and I understand this to be a fake. The pic in post 80 has T300 on the crystal. These are the genuine...

Buzby. Your comments on code and security errors struck a cord. 25 years ago I was contract installing for a big electronic security company. The most common stand alone codepad we used on alarm systems and door strikes would operate via 4 digit code or static from a comb rubbed down your pants...

Many decades ago, (pre-picaxe), I used a relay for a pump on and off controlled by a very simple op amp circuit and 12V DC. Not my circuit and lost now, but was suppose to be AC through the 3 stainless steel probes. I never had significant corrosion issues. Worked for years. This was for...

Papaof2. I wish someone had told me about the "?" a long time ago. Thanks. Visser. I use these modules for testing for the presents of 42Vac to 240Vac. The outputs can go straight to picaxe inputs. I'd struggle to buy the parts for the price and they're pre-assembled.

I'd be using something like these modules to test for the presents of AC mains. 8 channel ----...

The MOC3041 is a zero crossed opti-coupled triac. Over the last ten years I've installed approx 400 of these every year. I get a fail or two in testing every year, but once proven they seem to keep functioning. (no returns). I source them from many suppliers, via Ebay, so some maybe cheap...

Sorry to hear that Erco. It's hard enough in this hobby finding English info or understandable Chinglish, and dealing with non English speaking suppliers when we have to. Now even the modules we buy speak Chinese. I'm surprised in that your boards are from and to the US. I believe my supplier...

Erco and Julian E. You can't have my modules, however here are links to the seller. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/143683726820 https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Hi-Link-Smart-Home-Voice-Activated-Control-Module-HLK-V20-Remote-Control-Offline-/133506461457 Note: when my modules arrived a note with them...

Erco, All 'turn on' work as expected. Temperature and heating/cooling say 'already set'?? Min/Max volume work by adjusting modules volume. Module speaks like a Chinese lady doing a USA accent. Need an Aussie accent to be perfect. Plugged USB into my computer which said windows couldn't find...

Just powered one up. Mine spoke English. Said 'Welcome to Hi Link'...... I said 'hello lamp', It said 'Hi. How can I help you?' Saying 'Lights On' turned on a LED. 'Lights Off' Turned the LED off. I think I like this module.

Hi guys, I ordered 4 of the above modules on the 5th. They arrived this morning, the 10th. (2x basic module and 2x modules on base with mic and speaker). Haven't tried them yet. The supplier customized the basic modules, ie wake up words; 'Wake up' or 'Beam me up Scotty' ..... Reply; 'your wish...

I don't have info on that meter but I have noted on other boards solder in fuses that don't look like a fuse. Some look like a capacitor, others like a resistor. I found one cap like one by Googling 'solder in fuses' and found a pic of the same device I had. Just a thought, but you might find a...

Premelec. Several of my close friends experienced premature pyrotechnic exothermic reactions with various levels of damage. Some permanent. I was lucky to avoid that. As an adult living in a peaceful country I've found no use in these skills developed as a child, and have knowledge that I dare...

Now noticed other 'if' statements within the main program that don't finish with an endif.

Your interrupt sub starts with an 'if' statement without an 'endif'. Also I believe this if line asks for an interrupt if a condition is met. I don't think an interrupt can be called from within an interrupt sub. (anyway the program will no longer be set for interrupt once an interrupt is called...