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by steve001
Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: Power Supply Monitoring Circuit
Replies: 7
Views: 1179

Re: Power Supply Monitoring Circuit

Noticed last night if anybody wanting to have a go with this i have put the voltage reference in the wrong place I would normally place it after the voltage regulator The circuit works on a bread board as described above, R1 & R2 may need adjusting experience shows that voltage dividers on breadboar...
by steve001
Sat Jan 28, 2023 3:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Power Supply Monitoring Circuit
Replies: 7
Views: 1179

Power Supply Monitoring Circuit

Afternoon All, Following another post on here that needed to know a low power supply voltage and trigger an event. This got me thinking ..... I came up with this circuit - please see attached The incoming supply DC voltage 7 - 9 V DC is monitored and if low the comparator output goes low, this could...
by steve001
Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: looking for advice
Replies: 10
Views: 2109

Re: looking for advice

Morning, NIce, A couple of things to be aware of, that i found whilst experimenting before i went the power path route If the input voltage to the regulator drops rapidly then the micro might not save your data / detect that the voltage has dropped. This all depends on the load of the 5 Volts When w...
by steve001
Sun Jan 22, 2023 9:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: looking for advice
Replies: 10
Views: 2109

Re: looking for advice

Hello Just read this post. Here is another alternative if you wish Several years ago i made a Data Logger with a Vdrive and wanted the .txt file to be closed properly and vdrive exited correctly on a power failure. I did some tests with some super capacitors - this is on the old forums https://www.m...
by steve001
Sun Aug 07, 2022 4:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Old programming boards not recognised by flowcode v4 and v9
Replies: 9
Views: 2005

Re: Old programming boards not recognised by flowcode v4 and v9

Hi,

Mloader is matrix own programming software, more information can be found on the flowcode wiki

https://www.flowcode.co.uk/wiki/index.p ... nt_Changes

Steve

:Edit

If using a pickit 2 - be aware of your target devices V9 may have devices that the pickit2 cannot program
by steve001
Sat Aug 06, 2022 3:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Old programming boards not recognised by flowcode v4 and v9
Replies: 9
Views: 2005

Re: Old programming boards not recognised by flowcode v4 and v9

Hi Mloader can be found here: - see software at bottom of the page https://www.matrixtsl.com/eblocks/resources/ another method .... do you have a pickit programmer ? i use a pickit 3 with my EB006-30 boards i have a V6 and 8 boards and it works well i am running windows 10 this wiki page describes t...
by steve001
Tue Jul 05, 2022 7:35 pm
Forum: General
Topic: History of Flowcode
Replies: 31
Views: 48190

Re: History of Flowcode

Shame that harting dont do a IDC male connector for this series that would be very handy
by steve001
Mon Jul 04, 2022 12:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Flowcode Exchange
Replies: 19
Views: 20891

Re: Flowcode Exchange

Afternoon,

That last time i spoke to peter, unfortunately this site is no longer managed due to lack of interest.

I would message peter ( P.erasmus ) and maybe martin ( mnfisher ) as they ran the site.
they may be able to assist with any queries that you might have.

Steve
by steve001
Mon Jun 06, 2022 3:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: History of Flowcode
Replies: 31
Views: 48190

Re: History of Flowcode

The time line is interesting, didn't realise how much has happened

I did like the "Virtual Pic" and it showing what was happening with the stack etc and what happened with various instructions sets

Its been a long time since i looked at that software, think i need to re visit :D
by steve001
Sun Jun 05, 2022 9:46 am
Forum: General
Topic: History of Flowcode
Replies: 31
Views: 48190

Re: History of Flowcode

i have some old programmer boards, but cannot find them at the moment :( looking at chip fryers post https://www.flowcode.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=6869#p6869 From Memory, I think i have the next version up of this board somewhere Steve might be able to shed some light on what it was. I think it ...