I lay out my components and leave the C1 cap in the tape. I put the OTC on the board before C1, then open the tape and put that one on the board. I always leave that 10uF in the tape til all other components are populated. Then it’s not a matter of me identifying 2 caps that are close in size, it’s ID’d by being in the tape, cut off the string of 100 from the package and identified one at a time as each component was laid out.
Incorrect. I just double checked. My 10uF caps are physically smaller than my 1uF caps. I also went over here and looked at bdiddle’s caps (#46). Bdiddle’s C1 is also physically smaller than OTC.
No big surprise really. It probably depends on brand, product line, and specification. More stable stuff may require more space or it may require less space (but more money).
The main thing to pay attention to is the fact that grantman321’s MCU actually runs. I don’t think that would happen with a 1uF decoupling cap.
I checked and the ones I have now from mouser aren’t longer, but they are more square and wider/taller. I think the last OTC’s I got from Richard were smaller.
Looking that over, I don’t see the changes made that Grantman says he made…
“dual_PWM uncommented, dual_PWM_start uncommented and left at 8, turbo rampdown basically stock, high is commented out still. After looking at the firmware over and over, I’m relatively convinced it isn’t the problem as I didn’t change much besides uncommenting the obvious dual_PWM related stuff.”
I know it’s easy to mess something up by now catching a related component later on in the program. Could it be something like that? Something that was changed in one place and not matched in another?
If it’s hardware then one 7135 pwm pin is shorted to Vcc. Simpler to check than firmware and pretty much has to be the solo chip. If it’s firmware sayonara sahib, adios bwana, later gator.
Unless I misunderstood, grantman321 gets modes of up to 0.38A, so nothing is shorted to Vcc. It’s possible that one of the 7x group of 7135’s has it’s PWM pin shorted to GND, but not Vcc.
That is correct. Modes are working as they should - just seems to be running off of one 7135 only as it’s pulling 0.38A on the turbo mode.
I’ll be able to take some measurements with my DMM on the driver later on tonight. In the middle of this my trusty Stahl soldering iron died. Got a new iron yesterday so I’m back in business.
Ah, get it now. Wouldn’t that indicate that the single chip pwm channel was functioning normally and the multi chip channel was not? I suppose it’s possible to have bad connections on all but one chip but it seems more likely that either the other pwm pin is not connected or the firmware isn’t generating the signal on the pin. Sorry, if I’m not helping I can just butt out.
I agree, my first assumption would be that it’s a firmware problem. At a glance, the FW looks OK… but I did not scrutinize it closely.
In order for the primary channel (the 7x channel) to stop working only one 7135 needs to have it’s PWM pin shorted to GND. Then they’ll all be shorted to GND, together.
I was just staring at the render and I can see how the pwm of the 5 chips on one side connect to the single chip above the OTC but I don’t see a trace connected to the mcu. Maybe try an air wire?
-edit this is in regards to post 87 so probably not Germaine to this problem.
Yeah, that was an oops. Another thing I need to do is go through my OSH Park and clean up all old versions. I’ve just been marking them as [outdated] in order to avoid lots of dead links when people link directly to the project instead of the driver thread on here… but it’s resulted in a huge mess in my OSH Park shared projects. The driver thread for the A17-L81 is over here~~ [WIP] 17mm *9x* 7135 for dual-PWM or white/red: A17-L81
