On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 4:53:23 AM UTC-4, Richard Scales wrote: > The original smart socket code which was created by Chris Barron ran on a > PIC16F690 which did not have enough ports to drive all 16 segments plus the > decimal point so I moved over to a PIC16F886 (I am no PIC expert so the > choice was based on what my development environment and programmer would > support). >
There was an IV-17 smartsocket project which exposed very serious problems in how the sockets enumerated on power-up. Those were 4-tube boards and it was basically impossible to guarantee that all 4 boards of a 16-tube display would all be visible and in the correct sequence. I have a 4-board chain and a pile-o-PICs in the basement from that era. AFAIK, the issue was never resolved. It may have been because it was a 4 tube per board design, but it is something to watch out for with smartsockets. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/62438029-349a-4bc3-936c-9f3b668a64fco%40googlegroups.com.
