Malfunction

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• latigerlilly Posts: 114

  2007-02-03 05:11 edited 2007-02-03 05:11

  Dude,
  
  I think you fried your Stamp 2 chip. If you are using the BOE, it is a very small and crowded breadboard (more like a bread crumb). Before I turn it on every time, I check and re-check to see if any of the LED leads are touching. When found, I use a tweezer to separate them. Then, and only then to I turn it on. The fact that your LED came on momentarily suggests that there was a short circuit. That's why I'm using the PDB now... much bigger breadboard (about half a slice).
  
  Here's how you narrow down the culprit;
  1. Try a different computer to hook it up to.
  2. Try a different program (download the editor of the newest version off the Parallax website) - you already did this, "tried different programs".
  These steps will isolate your problem as a computer hardware/software problem.
  
  3. Try putting your BS2 on a different board.
  4. Try putting anoter BS2 on your board.
  These steps will isolate your problem as a BS2 problem or BOE problem.
  
  5. Replace the component that is not working.
  
  Try this and see,
  Lilly.
• AIman Posts: 531

  2007-02-03 17:22 edited 2007-02-03 17:22

  I was suspecting that I may have fried the stamp - so here is more detail based on what you suggested.
  
  1. Try a different computer to hook it up to.
  
  ·· There is a second BS2 on a different board with a different power supply, it accepts the program without any problems. So now its swap out the stamps and see what happens.
  
  - Use a Needle nose to put in componets. Its a pliers made for electrical work with a long flat snout. Takes about the same space as a tweezers and gives a lot more controll.
  
  
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• AIman Posts: 531

  2007-02-03 17:31 edited 2007-02-03 17:31

  It was the stamp.
  
  The second stamp accepted the program on both boards but the stamp in question didn't.
  
  Both boards ran different power sources and loaded from the same computer.