Thanks to this forum I now have my AXE-033 up and running.
As someone pointed out on another thread it needs a 'good' 5V, it seems to die under about 4.6V.
As the picaxe project needs 4.5 V I'm wondering about how to power this project up for real use.
I am building a camera trigger that I'd like to be able to run on AA cells and that has a reasonably good battery life. Realistically, is the AXE-033 a power hog?
Could I get away with using a 6V supply (4 cells) or would that be too much for the Picaxe circuit? I suspect its OK, but thought it was worth checking before blasting a chip.
My project is quite a simple one, it involves a push button switch which is used to trigger the camera at a delay stored in a Picaxe 28X. A keypad is used to enter the delay time, and the AXE-033 is used with a simple menu system to allow viewing the delay time entered via the keypad.
As someone pointed out on another thread it needs a 'good' 5V, it seems to die under about 4.6V.
As the picaxe project needs 4.5 V I'm wondering about how to power this project up for real use.
I am building a camera trigger that I'd like to be able to run on AA cells and that has a reasonably good battery life. Realistically, is the AXE-033 a power hog?
Could I get away with using a 6V supply (4 cells) or would that be too much for the Picaxe circuit? I suspect its OK, but thought it was worth checking before blasting a chip.
My project is quite a simple one, it involves a push button switch which is used to trigger the camera at a delay stored in a Picaxe 28X. A keypad is used to enter the delay time, and the AXE-033 is used with a simple menu system to allow viewing the delay time entered via the keypad.