Hi Scott, I've had a tech check out the soldering. Seems ok, so I will take you up on your offer to check it out. Regards, Ron vk3ecv
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 17:48 -0700, Scott Miller wrote: > Ok. I'd suggest checking out the soldering on the capacitors near the > ST202, and on the ST202 itself (the fine-pitch chip on the upper right) > if you're so inclined. Otherwise you can send it back and I'll check it > out. > > Scott > > Ron Perry wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Scott, > > On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 10:29 -0700, Scott Miller wrote: > > > Sometimes that's a sign of a serial comm problem - could be a bad cable, > > > flaky connection, bad USB adapter, or even a soldering problem on one of > > > the charge pump capacitors near the ST202. > > > > > > First thing to try is disabling turbo mode. That'll knock it down to > > > 4800 baud, which is usually enough to get around marginal cabling. > > > > > Already done that. :-) The cables do work on the second OT2m, so there > > shouldn't be a problem there. Not using a "USB to serial" cable either. > > > > > Scott > > > > > > Ron Perry wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I've think I've stuffed up. I've tried to upload the ot2.s19 and I > > > > believe have the OT2m in an unusable state. > > > > On power up the ACT Red led come on then the ACT green led pulses. > > > > After some time both the TX and RX lights light up. > > > > otwincfg goes into Firmware Initalization (with a green ACT led), > > > > Choice of file or web works, and it starts to "Write to Tracker". > > > > The write to tracker fails, with the error "Unable to verify block at > > > > "varies". otwincfg reports "Configutation write failed" On closing that > > > > popup otwincfg exits. > > > > > > > > My second OT2m works..but I'm not up loading anything. :-) > > > > > > > > Ron > > > > vk3ecv > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
