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  • Per Hansson
    Super Moderator
    • Jul 2005
    • 5895
    • Sweden

    #721
    Re: ESR meter upgrades

    Do you mean the issues posted by madires here?
    http://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgea...-project/2900/

    Because I do have a 20Mhz crystal too, didn't make that clear I see now
    "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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    • stj
      Great Sage 齊天大聖
      • Dec 2009
      • 30937
      • Albion

      #722
      Re: ESR meter upgrades

      no, the firmware i posted is not from madires - it's from karl heinze.
      completely different code.

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      • Per Hansson
        Super Moderator
        • Jul 2005
        • 5895
        • Sweden

        #723
        Re: ESR meter upgrades

        Ok, I thought you had compiled madires firmware too, guess my memory played me a trick
        Gives me a good excuse to try it myself, might wait for the next release though as he mentioned a few caveats in the current build with the 20Mhz option...
        "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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        • stj
          Great Sage 齊天大聖
          • Dec 2009
          • 30937
          • Albion

          #724
          Re: ESR meter upgrades

          *if* you do that, put the crystal in a socket - or you will be stuck with madires firmware.

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          • socketa
            Asbelowsoabove
            • Jun 2014
            • 660
            • samsara

            #725
            Re: ESR meter upgrades

            GM328x ESR tester (SVN684) - small fonts.zip
            Is there an easy way to change the operation of the rotary encoder, so that downwards movement through the menu corresponds with clockwise rotation? (rather than anti-clockwise)

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            • stj
              Great Sage 齊天大聖
              • Dec 2009
              • 30937
              • Albion

              #726
              Re: ESR meter upgrades

              set a flag in the makefile and rebuild the source.
              # the option CHANGE_ROTARY_DIRECTION changes the rotary direction by swap of switches
              CFLAGS += -DCHANGE_ROTARY_DIRECTION

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              • socketa
                Asbelowsoabove
                • Jun 2014
                • 660
                • samsara

                #727
                Re: ESR meter upgrades

                Ok, i see that that code is already the makefile.
                How does one set this flag in the makefile?
                Do i need to download a compiler?
                Can it be done with windows XP and Codeblocks?

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                • stj
                  Great Sage 齊天大聖
                  • Dec 2009
                  • 30937
                  • Albion

                  #728
                  Re: ESR meter upgrades

                  edit the makefile with any text editor, then compile it.
                  does codeblocks build AVR ?

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                  • socketa
                    Asbelowsoabove
                    • Jun 2014
                    • 660
                    • samsara

                    #729
                    Re: ESR meter upgrades

                    What exactly needs to be added/changed in the makefile?
                    i really have no programming compiling skills except extremely basic stuff, that i've mostly forgotten.
                    Definitely don't know what a flag is.
                    Will AVRdude rebuild the source, and which one is the source file? Is it transistortester.h ?

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                    • stj
                      Great Sage 齊天大聖
                      • Dec 2009
                      • 30937
                      • Albion

                      #730
                      Re: ESR meter upgrades

                      updates - inc one for socketa
                      Attached Files

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                      • socketa
                        Asbelowsoabove
                        • Jun 2014
                        • 660
                        • samsara

                        #731
                        Re: ESR meter upgrades

                        Thankyou very much
                        Works nicely (did you just comment out the flag?)
                        Noticed that ESR was not right after 1st calibration - but it came good after the 2nd calibration.

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                        • stj
                          Great Sage 齊天大聖
                          • Dec 2009
                          • 30937
                          • Albion

                          #732
                          Re: ESR meter upgrades

                          you put a hash in front of the line you want to disable.

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                          • jondoe
                            Badcaps Veteran
                            • Nov 2016
                            • 547
                            • UK

                            #733
                            Re: ESR meter upgrades

                            Please find attached the most recent compiled version of the mega328_st7565_kit - Standard 8Mhz, English, v1.12k rev 700

                            I've had some fun this week learning how to use an Arduino to flash some blank chips, patience and more coffee got me there in the end I've tested various components, all seems fine.
                            Attached Files

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                            • jondoe
                              Badcaps Veteran
                              • Nov 2016
                              • 547
                              • UK

                              #734
                              Re: ESR meter upgrades

                              mega328_st7565_kit - Standard 8Mhz, English, v1.12k rev 696
                              Attached Files

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                              • socketa
                                Asbelowsoabove
                                • Jun 2014
                                • 660
                                • samsara

                                #735
                                Re: ESR meter upgrades

                                mega328_st7565_kit - Standard 8Mhz, English, v1.12k rev 696
                                This is better because you can put in whatever frequency you want.
                                But why's the text a mirror image, and also upside-down? (at least on this meter)
                                so i went to https://n2github/transistortester/tr...mega328_st7565 and programmed it with that.
                                Now it's looks good, except that there is only a third of the first character on each line, and it's only upside down and not mirror-imaged
                                Last edited by socketa; 12-17-2016, 09:04 PM.

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                                • jondoe
                                  Badcaps Veteran
                                  • Nov 2016
                                  • 547
                                  • UK

                                  #736
                                  Re: ESR meter upgrades

                                  You're having some problems? I didn't see anything flipped upside down text on mine, is that somewhere in the menu? I haven't looked at the freq counter on mine. I might potentially need to use a different tool chain as I've seen mentioned that the one shipped with winavr can cause troubles, this might be related!

                                  Ignore the rev 700 i posted, I got the revision number wrong!

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                                  • stj
                                    Great Sage 齊天大聖
                                    • Dec 2009
                                    • 30937
                                    • Albion

                                    #737
                                    Re: ESR meter upgrades

                                    Originally posted by socketa
                                    This is better because you can put in whatever frequency you want.
                                    But why's the text a mirror image, and also upside-down? (at least on this meter)
                                    you have a GM328 not an st7565_kit.
                                    different hardware needs different firmware.

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                                    • jondoe
                                      Badcaps Veteran
                                      • Nov 2016
                                      • 547
                                      • UK

                                      #738
                                      Re: ESR meter upgrades

                                      I'll compile one for the GM328 when I get a moment tomorrow

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                                      • socketa
                                        Asbelowsoabove
                                        • Jun 2014
                                        • 660
                                        • samsara

                                        #739
                                        Re: ESR meter upgrades

                                        you have a GM328 not an st7565_kit.
                                        different hardware needs different firmware.
                                        Yeah, the penny dropped just dropped a few minutes ago.
                                        The GM328 on that website works good but no rotary encoder/option. And i see that that's what you've enabled - but the frequency option has being restricted.
                                        Is it easy enough to recomple it, so that any frequency can be inputted?
                                        Last edited by socketa; 12-17-2016, 09:35 PM.

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                                        • stj
                                          Great Sage 齊天大聖
                                          • Dec 2009
                                          • 30937
                                          • Albion

                                          #740
                                          Re: ESR meter upgrades

                                          the different frequency generator is intentional, the changed code is in my zips.
                                          the frequency code that you can allegedly input any frequency is very difficult to use.

                                          @jondoe - use the makefiles from my zip - the regular one is pretty wrong.
                                          infact most of the makefiles on the SVN are only just working and need to be finetuned.

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