westaust55
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It appears that I have received a faulty AXE-022 proto-board
I have spent the evening soldering several sockets onto a new AXE-022 proto-board (purchased 2 weeks ago but first time out of the packing tonight).
On geting everything ready, I plugged in the AXE-027 USB programming cable and tried to download a program to be greeted with message to say
"Error - Hardware not found on Com 15"
After checking the cable and other things quickly still no joy.
I put the PICAXE 40X1 back into the other (older) AXE-022 protoboard and there was no problems downloading a program.
So tried the Programming Editor View/Options/Test facility and put a multimeter across the Serial input and there was no Voltage at pin 6 (Serial Input) when the LED was clicked (and turned green).
A few more tests with the multimeter and I found that there was a circuit from the PICAXE 40X1 Serial Input (Pin 6) to the 22kOhm resistor but no circuit from the 22kOhm resistor to the stereo programming socket.
To test out this I soldered a link from the 22kOhm resistor to the programming socket and lo and behold using the Programming Editor View/Options/Test facility I could then toggle the logic level on the 40X1 serial input pin.
So all seemed good and I reinstalled the 40X1 into the new AXE-022 proto-board.
With a program in the PICAXE 40X1, I can run that program on the new AXE-022 protoboard.
But . . . . still unable to download a program.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Any comments of thoughts from the PICAXE community?
Does Technical have any comment?
I have spent the evening soldering several sockets onto a new AXE-022 proto-board (purchased 2 weeks ago but first time out of the packing tonight).
On geting everything ready, I plugged in the AXE-027 USB programming cable and tried to download a program to be greeted with message to say
"Error - Hardware not found on Com 15"
After checking the cable and other things quickly still no joy.
I put the PICAXE 40X1 back into the other (older) AXE-022 protoboard and there was no problems downloading a program.
So tried the Programming Editor View/Options/Test facility and put a multimeter across the Serial input and there was no Voltage at pin 6 (Serial Input) when the LED was clicked (and turned green).
A few more tests with the multimeter and I found that there was a circuit from the PICAXE 40X1 Serial Input (Pin 6) to the 22kOhm resistor but no circuit from the 22kOhm resistor to the stereo programming socket.
To test out this I soldered a link from the 22kOhm resistor to the programming socket and lo and behold using the Programming Editor View/Options/Test facility I could then toggle the logic level on the 40X1 serial input pin.
So all seemed good and I reinstalled the 40X1 into the new AXE-022 proto-board.
With a program in the PICAXE 40X1, I can run that program on the new AXE-022 protoboard.
But . . . . still unable to download a program.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Any comments of thoughts from the PICAXE community?
Does Technical have any comment?