E/X-Mag Microcontroller Programming (Atmel AT90S2313)

[Rudz]

hmm

Notice: The Norwegian prisoners were executed....er....I mean... shot while trying to escape this morning.
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let that be a notice to our german counterparts...and they were a national threat..we must protect the freedom of every american..and e/x mag owners..

[sean33]

agreed.

[11 Bravo]

Okay, I played with the Xmod today. It worked great and was very fast. I lowered the dwell and it is faster than 3.2 in semi. The gun and software worked flawlessly, just like advertised.
I am sure with a little more tweaking of the settings it will get even better.

This gets the 11 Bravo seal of approval..

[Rudz]

yeah

man im so jealous,, i cant wait for mine...

[sean33]

how do i get mine

[Alpha]

You can either:

Purchase the programmer to flash your board yourself at a cost of $89 for the programmer, $60 for the cable, and whatever else you need (9v battery, etc),

OR

You can just be patient and wait about a month or two for the final versian to be released.

[sean33]

dude k ill wait....then i can just get somone to flash it for me??

[LorneCash]

11Bravo can you please comment on how difficult the installation was with the STK500.

If anyone else is interested in this Option I have 3 6-pin programming cables left. To purchasing one (for use with an STK500) please email me at [email protected]

[11 Bravo]

[QUOTE=LorneCash]11Bravo can you please comment on how difficult the installation was with the STK500. QUOTE]

It was very easy. The directions were right to the point and easy to follow.
The only glitch was that I forgot to disable the tourney jumper and reprogramed the board a few times thinking that it hadnt gone thru correctly.
Once I slapped my forehead and disabled the jumper everything worked fine.


Used it again today - very awesome. Xmag at 20 bps =

[LorneCash]

The only glitch was that I forgot to disable the tourney jumper and reprogramed the board a few times thinking that it hadnt gone thru correctly.
Once I slapped my forehead and disabled the jumper everything worked fine.

Sorry man, I can't fix stupid... lol. I'll make sure and add that to the troubleshooting section though, that's the best I can do.

[Naash]

I'll wait the "german solution", it's not an emergency for me.

Lornecash, I really thank you for all that you do for us.

[Jotsy]

wow! that was amazing! wish i could take vids

i'll see if i can have a more detailed write up, but it doesn't look like i have anything more to say that hasn't already been said. i'll try testing this all the way to a completely drained battery to see what happens. altho, i'm not entirely sure about this one but i think my solenoid is failing to fire earlier into the battery (either that or my battery just wasn't fully charged when i started). You might also want to consider having the low batt message display when it can't fire the solenoid properly rather than just when the battery got really low (although, i make no claims to knowing how it actually detects the low battery).

oh yea, i also didn't have much problems with the installation... other than somehow i got sold a dud battery (stay away from panasonic batts! ). oh and is it normal that the low batt message flashes while its connected to the programmer? (while the gun still has 3.2 installed. it dissappears once xmod is loaded. my xmag battery was not connected during the whole process)

btw lornecash, you might get an email from me sometime soon about a custom boot message just as soon as i figure out what i want it to say

EDIT: ok that was interesting. solenoid started not firing at all, low batt would keep coming on but would dissappear as soon as i pulled the trigger. i was in pratice mode tho (with the brightness waaaay up just to eat up the batt faster). in semi mode, the low batt message only appears when i try to push a button and not when i pull the trigger, and when it does come on, it wouldn't go away. then when i switch it off and on again, xmod doesn't load up at all. no damage to the chip or code at all tho, cos when i put in my spare batt everything loaded up like normal. i assume the low batt only comes on when the battery is almost completely dry which is when all the weird stuff happens.

[LorneCash]

when i put in my spare batt everything loaded up like normal. I assume the low batt only comes on when the battery is almost completely dry which is when all the weird stuff happens.

The way the low battery message works is that it will come on when there is not enough battery to operate the microcontroller properly. The gun will stop shooting long before this happens because the solenoid requires much more battery power than the microcontroller.

I wish I could change the low battery to be when the gun is not able to fire crrectly but I can't. The battery check is actually a hardware check and all I get is a 0 if it's ok and a 1 if it's bad. I can't change what voltage is says bad at. The moral of the story is if the low battery alert comes on it's really a dead battery alert rather than just low.

[LorneCash]

Digikey had the STK500's back in stock, there are 56 units available at the time of this post. The price is $79.00 plus shipping.

To find it go to www.digikey.com and type ATSTK500 in the search. Three items will be found you will want Digi-Key part number ATSTK500-ND

[Jotsy]

oh ok. hmmm how did the original AGD 3.2 code do it?