No wheel displayed when connecting Spoke POV - OS X 10.6

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No wheel displayed when connecting Spoke POV - OS X 10.6

Postby Bones » Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:35 pm

Hello,

I've got one of my SpokePOVs that is behaving oddly when I connect it up to the 1.4 software under OS X. It's able to establish the USB connection, but once it does the software simply has a blank screen. No wheel is shown nor do I have the option to read/write/verify the contents of the spoke. Here's what it looks like

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I've got two other spokes that are working fine, just this one is acting a bit flaky. I'm sure the collection of playa dust is not helping but I've tried to clean it up as much as I can without any change in behavior.

Any ideas what the problem might be? My best guess is that the ROM chip has gone bad

Thanks!
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Re: No wheel displayed when connecting Spoke POV - OS X 10.6

Postby adafruit » Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:49 pm

try swapping chips, it sounds like a bad connection
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Re: No wheel displayed when connecting Spoke POV - OS X 10.6

Postby Bones » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:34 pm

Swapped the ROM chip between one of the working spokes and the non-working one, and sure enough the problem followed the chip.

So I suppose I just need to get a replacement ROM chip from Mouser and call it good

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