When I first put LEDs under behind some B5991 nixie tubes in my PC disk bay nixie clock and called it the 'festival' nixie clock, back in 2003, I got some...
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ddistasio
Jan 20, 2012 2:13 am
Thanks to all for the suggestions. I am still not having any luck with hyperterminal and the FTDI interface. I was able to successfully send a V to the board...
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ddistasio
Jan 20, 2012 2:30 am
One other comment, I was able to send a V from a text file in hyperterminal successfully using a different FTDI cable. I am still having trouble with multiple...
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Terry
tkennedyny
Jan 20, 2012 3:08 am
... The numbers 60, 4, and 1 need to be expressed as binary values, not character codes. In hexadecimal (for example, as you'd see with the DEBUG program in...
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fixitsan2
Jan 20, 2012 8:48 am
... Dylan, I've only had a minute to look at the Arduino manual, does any of this look familiar ? serial.print("MD"); serial.write(2); serial.print("HI"); Note...
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fixitsan2
Jan 20, 2012 10:33 am
I just downloaded Coolterm by Roger Meier (freeware) http://freeware.the-meiers.org/ It has a good command in there called 'send string'. you can send ascii or...
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Dylan Distasio
ddistasio
Jan 20, 2012 2:24 pm
So I'm slowly making some good progress. I was able to send a set clock and display time command from the Arduino. CoolTerm also looks great. I tried it...
... Hehe, I live in a small village and I try to use the Post Office here as opposed to the one at local large supermarket. I post the Smarsocket kits in...
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fixitsan2
Jan 20, 2012 11:10 pm
... Dylan are you using autobaud or are you waiting 2 seconds after the Smartsocket reboots to the default of 9600 baud ? ... The key with the clock command...
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shklaw75
Jan 21, 2012 4:46 am
Hi Dylan, I have been using realterm for testing the smartsocks at the moment. What i like about it is that you can send multiple character types in the same...
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Dylan Distasio
ddistasio
Jan 21, 2012 6:05 am
Hi Simon- Thank you so much for sharing! This was exactly what I was looking for, as I was not able to figure out how to mix types using CoolTerm or the...
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fixitsan2
Jan 21, 2012 10:36 am
... Thanks for sharing that Simon, that's a great solution !...
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fixitsan2
Jan 21, 2012 6:11 pm
Thanks to Terry Kennedy for the idea of having the last tube in a scrolling array transmit the characters $S , at the completion of a scrolling routine. This...
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fixitsan2
Feb 7, 2012 10:32 am
Thanks to those of you who provided me with data and links to the FLW implementation which I have used as the starting point. I have to admit that I did not...
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ddistasio
Feb 12, 2012 6:55 am
Hi all- I've been experimenting further with my IV-17 smartsocket and have run into an issue. I'm hoping someone might have an idea on solving it. I have been...
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Dylan Distasio
ddistasio
Feb 12, 2012 7:07 am
Just to confuse things further...As I played around with it further, I am occasionally able to get the effects on tube 3 to work, but after switching the text...
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fixitsan2
Feb 12, 2012 8:15 pm
... Okay Dylan, no problem Can you say what commands yoiu are sending (exactly), in the order they are being sent, together with any pauses in between them. ...
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fixitsan2
Feb 12, 2012 11:04 pm
A better quality video at last ! This is the effect running at it's slowest speed, taking about 20 seconds to complete each transition. The fastest speed...
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Dylan Distasio
ddistasio
Feb 12, 2012 11:40 pm
Ok, I had some trouble reproducing it initially but I figured out what is happening. I'm not sure if there is any way to override this behavior, but at least...
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fixitsan2
Feb 13, 2012 12:06 am
... Okay I see what you mean. In the version of software you have that is the default behaviour. unchanged digits do not have a transition applied because the...
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fixitsan2
Feb 14, 2012 8:45 am
... Out of curiosity, is there a way to ... Just another thought Dylan, you could try sending a blank character to the digit you wish to change and very...
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black_petal
Feb 27, 2012 5:11 pm
will IV-4 work ? thanks mike...
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michail1@...
michailrw
Feb 27, 2012 5:12 pm
IV4 is basically identical to the IV17 Michail In a message dated 2/27/2012 9:11:42 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, logan714@... writes: will IV-4 work ? ...
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Garrett Stewart
xaero252
Feb 28, 2012 12:00 am
... How about the IV-12, I know its smaller, but I think the specs are similar, correct me if I'm wrong here....
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michail1@...
michailrw
Feb 28, 2012 5:49 am
No, the IV12 is a 7 segment display. Michail In a message dated 2/27/2012 4:01:02 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, zero@... writes: On 2/27/2012 9:12 AM,...
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ukewarrior
Feb 28, 2012 1:55 pm
As a new member, I have found it a bewildering task to determine if any PCBs are for sale and by who. I'm interested in the boards that can run IV-4/IV-17...
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michail1@...
michailrw
Feb 28, 2012 2:25 pm
You need to contact Chris ( _fixitsan@..._ (mailto:fixitsan@...) ) _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smartsockets/message/797_ ...
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fixitsan2
Feb 28, 2012 3:54 pm
... Glad you decided to ask the question David ! I have several kits made up and about another 25 sets of the current version of PCB in stock. Those boards and...
