{"id":32,"date":"2008-04-23T23:45:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T03:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2008-04-30T00:09:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T04:09:46","slug":"mode-w-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/mode-w-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"\/mode +w #beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Victory's<\/a><\/p>\n

Tonight I ended up staying at work until about 8:20pm helping a coworker out with something. It’s not set and he’s on vacation tomorrow, so I’ll end up working on it too. Ah well.<\/p>\n

Since I got home too late to go ride my bike I ended up boxing up Ivan’s P3 (photo gallery retired)<\/em>, making a frozen pizza, then watching some TiVo’d stuff and WTVS-HD before wandering back up here to my computer. So, why did I box up the P3? Well, remember the failing PLED post<\/a>? Yep, it’s bad. While the first one didn’t display very well, the second doesn’t display at all.<\/p>\n

I had actually emailed the pictures of the questionable display (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>) to the tech support people at Crystalfontz<\/a> to see if what I was seeing really is indicative of a failing PLED. One of the tech support people replied, confirming that it is what I thought, and suggesting a replacement display. If you’d like to read the whole thread between the tech support person and I, it’s archived as a PNG here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, now Ivan is sorting out grabbing a new LCD and then I’ll get back to work on his P3. For now I’ve boxed it up and it’s sitting in a safe place, above ground level, not below any water pipes.<\/p>\n

My next (current?) project is now a set of PCBs similar to the RS232 to Eaton Leonard Level Shifter (photo gallery retired)<\/em> boards which I did last year, but instead accepting ~7VDC – ~40VDC (or straight 5VDC) for the power, with the conversion being handled by a reference implementation of a switching supply. (This is the supply whose ripple is shown here<\/a>.) The parts are ordered for the first run of them, I just need to wait until they arrive, confirm the footprints, order the PCBs, test, and build.<\/p>\n

But for now? I rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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