wondering about older chips from HVW

X

xfred

New Member
hi, hoping you can help me... a couple years ago i purchased a bunch (12) of picaxe chips from a company in Canada called HVW tech, located in BC i beleive, anyway, this was before you where marking them with your name i think, and at the time i thought where authentic. They came as - PIC16F628 i/p 18 pin. my question is does this ring bells, if so what is the replacement chip for the authentic picaxe compliment. The company it seems went under this last year or this year and i can't contact them. can i still use them as per picaxe circuits on web site?

Was it even made by you? I don't have any other info. hope you can help. Thanks in advance.
Fred
 
darb1972

darb1972

Senior Member
Fred

PICAXE Manual 1, page 16. This has the labels for the matching PICAXE chips. I can't see yours listed? Sorry, that's all I offer.
 
hippy

hippy

Ex-Staff (retired)
Welcome to the PICAXE forum.

The 16F628 does not appear to have ever been used as a PICAXE chip so it is most likely a native PICmicro device.
 
R

Rick100

Senior Member
Here are some links to the hvwtech.com website on the wayback machine . It appears they sold both the picaxe and raw pic chips . They were sold to solarbotics .
Link to picaxe products:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110831015353/http://www.hvwtech.com/products_view.asp?ProductID=483
Link to raw pic chips:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070423113025/http://www.hvwtech.com/products_list.asp?CatID=90&SubCatID=127&SubSubCatID=137&CurPage=1
Link to farewell page:
http://web.archive.org/web/20121104001732/http://www.hvwtech.com/
 
X

xfred

New Member
Thank you for all your replys!

I think i'm going to make a circuit and a small program to determine if the chips are unwritten/new pic chips or are picaxe chips. I should be able to detect picaxe basic within the chip. Maybe i just mixed them up some how. Wonder what happened to HVW, they had some great products, i bought alot of stuff from them.

anyway i did purchase some genuine picaxe chips today, i have some projects to make.
Thanks again for the help. :)
 
Technical

Technical

Technical Support
Staff member
Don't waste your time, they are definitely not PICAXE chips if they say 16F628 on the top!
HVW were bought out by Solarbotics.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top