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TassyJim Guru  Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5119 |
My units look the same as the one in your photo. I tried a second one out of the same delivery but this time didn't solder the header pins in case there was an issue with my breadboard. No change re maximum speed. It appears to be reliable at 200MHz but fails totally at 220MHz and above including 378MHz. The WS2812 on my second board behaves correctly. The one on my first board is interesting. If you write RGB(0,0,0) it correctly goes off but ANY colour sent in the next command results in fully brightness either white or green. Subsequent writes are correct colour until the next black. Jim Edit: My 'good' pico boards use B1 chips while the new black boards use B2 chips. I hope that is not the reason and newer chips are all limited! Edited 2023-01-24 13:44 by TassyJim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 2027 |
This board uses a linear regulator for the rp2040. Maybe it cannot supply sufficient power to run the rp2040 at high speed. Try powering the 3.3v from a genuine picomite 3.3v. Volhout If nothing goes right ... turn left |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6828 |
My boards are B2 |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 3327 |
It should be able to handle the current. In theory. :) The linear regulator is rated for 300mA, the switcher for 350mA IIRC. The current drawn by the RP2040 is probably less than 100mA at max overclocking. The switcher has been measured at 43mA input at 5V/252MHz. Allowing for 85% efficiency, that would be about 77mA at 3V3 into the RP2040 if I've worked it out correctly. This is a B2 too. If I bitbang with 0 it goes off. If I then bitbang with Red I get a pale green at full brightness. If I then bitbang with Red again I get red. :) Even more charming - If I keep sending zero it alternates between off and some colours - mostly the greens and blues. This problem seems to completely go away by reducing the CPU speed to 200MHz. Perhaps better not to push these boards. :) Edited 2023-01-24 21:34 by Mixtel90 Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 2027 |
Who knows ? picomite VGA... I remember there was a change in the sprite file format, so it could use color 0 as transparent, or use it as black. I wanted to use it as black (CMM1 format). How do I choose this ? May have missed it in the manual. Volhout EDIT: found it in the CMM2 manual. The SPRITE WRITE defaults to "orientation=4" meaning it uses color 0 as transparent. When you use orientation=0 (append ",0", you get the same behaviour as the CMM1. Edited 2023-01-25 01:11 by Volhout If nothing goes right ... turn left |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 2027 |
@Peter, Thank you for the file system in the pico itself (the A: drive). I have used it a lot, and it simply works. Good job !! Volhout If nothing goes right ... turn left |
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