Firmware difference to Otter-Iron (non-pro)

Jana-Marie / Otter-Iron-PRO

USB-PD soldering station for JBC C245 handles.

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Firmware difference to Otter-Iron (non-pro) #20

Closed NeoFromMatrix closed 3 years ago

NeoFromMatrix commented 3 years ago

I wanted to ask if the Otter-Iron-PRO hardware is compatible with the Otter-Iron non-PRO firmware (https://github.com/Jan--Henrik/Otter-Iron). It seems that the non-PRO has developed a bit further while this repo stalled.

If it is compatible, or one firmware for both hardware versions is desired, do you want to add a note in this repo pointing to the other repo?

Also, thanks a lot for your work, I highly appreciate it! :)

ElRoberto538 commented 3 years ago

From looking at the code, the firmware seems compatible, however it runs at lower power... the updates are to support lower power profiles. I copied them into the pro firmware for testing as I only had a 28w adapter. With the lower power it works fine but takes a long time (30+ seconds) to heat up. Having said that I did borrow a 100w apple adapter and changed the firmware to use the full 100w - it works great!

Unless you need lower power I'd stick with the pro firmware.

Jana-Marie commented 3 years ago

Hey! No they are NOT compatible, the PROs PWM and PID loop run at a much higher frequency! Please use the PRO firmware for the PRO.

Both firmwares need bugfixes and the PRO firmware needs to be updated to the non-pro firmware version. I will add that to my todo list :)