Newby help with picaxe 14m2 to reconfiguring c3 c4 c5 to output pins

[david leswell]

Hi all. This im first use of a picaxe 14m2 and Logicator V3 5.1

my project is a wind speed metre using a roller ball mouse. (prior to building a 24v 1KW 3 phase wind turbine).

It works fine with a 14m and 6x LEDs, but i needed 8x LED outputs so i have redesigned the PCB for the 14m2.

I can select the 14m2 in the menu, but the pin configuration box is greyed out and unable to secect output pin types.
will i have to use basic code "high portc" and "low portc" as its only to turn on/off an LED.
any help would be great.

many thanks
Dave

 

[eclectic]

Welcome to the Forum David.

Now, just my opinion, but
if you're designing a "serious" project,
(a 24v 1KW 3 phase wind turbine)
using a modern Picaxe chip,
then use BASIC

There are many Forum viewers using Logicator.
However, most of the Forum posters
use BASIC.

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[Technical]

Yes, use the 'BASIC' flowchart cell containing a command which are written like this for the 14M2 (do not use 'portc')

high C.1
low C.1

 

[david leswell]

Many thanks for the help.
My wind turbine is project 2. I need to complete my wind speed meter to find the best location for my wind turbine.

Using BASIC high C.1 low C.1 i can now get the leds working on a test program running on the hardware.
My next problem is i am using a COUNT command in Logicator. with a picaxe14 chip in logicator i could count input pin 0 and it works fine.
With the picaxe 14m2 i am not shure how to count the input as logicator does not seem to support the 14m2 at pressent. I need to count the pulses on pin 2 (c.5) and store in "A"

Your help would be greatly apreciated.
David

 

[Technical]

On the 14M2 portC are the default inputs and portB are default outputs.

C.5 is the download programming pin, it would be much better to use a different pin e.g. C.0, which would just be 'input 0' exactly the same as with 14M.

You could use C.5 at a push, but it is much harder as you need to learn about 'disconnect' and 'hard resets'

The BASIC cell content would be
disconnect
count C.5, desired_time_value, varA