14-03-2017, 07:48 PM
Hi Lew,
you can program them assembled.
however they can be done before you assemble them just to get the hang of experimenting.
its just plug in the usb cable to your laptop and the microusb end of the cable into the pcb and write. easy. no extra power cables or anything else.
get the hang of flashing code into them and you might get the bug and do more with them.
from power-on they take less than 5 seconds to boot up and produce the programmed frequency.
mine runs every day in the ute and its been very reliable.
there are 2 ports on them, so there are mentions of not using the port you program it with to program the port on the pll synthesiser pcb. once you have the assembly looking just like what I did it works fine.
73 Dave
you can program them assembled.
however they can be done before you assemble them just to get the hang of experimenting.
its just plug in the usb cable to your laptop and the microusb end of the cable into the pcb and write. easy. no extra power cables or anything else.
get the hang of flashing code into them and you might get the bug and do more with them.
from power-on they take less than 5 seconds to boot up and produce the programmed frequency.
mine runs every day in the ute and its been very reliable.
there are 2 ports on them, so there are mentions of not using the port you program it with to program the port on the pll synthesiser pcb. once you have the assembly looking just like what I did it works fine.
73 Dave