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Open Source Soldering Iron firmware
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High Voltage Error #447

Closed IOIOIOIOIOI closed 5 years ago

IOIOIOIOIOI commented 5 years ago

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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Normal use

Video of problem if hard to reproduce

On the idle screen, you can hold the settings button and it will show you the firmware version.

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whitehoose commented 5 years ago

@IOIOIOIOIOI Hi. Looking at this I'm a little confused as to what we're talking about here. Let me say I'm just being a little nosy until Ralim or one of the other leaders picks up. 1 is it a ts80 iron? - that would likely have the 1.06 fw. 2 If yes, is that stock PSU the DN.OX ? 3 The 1.06 fw is a stock firmware - ralim and the others don't have control over minidso's firmware. Have you tried re-flashing your iron with the appropriate Fw created by Ralim? Or updating to newer version of stock? To update the fw http://gotronik.pl/images/img/TS80%20Soldering%20Iron%20User%20Manual%20V1.1.pdf

see page 20 restart the iron while pressing button A

  1. download the suitable TS80 firmware to your PC.
  2. Hold TS80's “A” key, and connect TS80 to your PC with USB Type-C cable, to enter DFU mode. A display of “DFU3.45” will appear on the screen;
  3. Using file manager Copy the .hex firmware to the root directory of that disk. You will probably get an error the first time - repeat the process - When the extension of the firmware changes from “.hex” to “.rdy”, disconnect USB and the firmware is upgraded. Reconnect to PSU Stock MiniDSO http://www.minidso.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3208 currently 1.07. Ralims F/w for both ts80 and ts100 : https://github.com/Ralim/ts100/releases

If TS80 - the device is designed to use QC3 power sources So - Have you tried any other QC3 enabled power sources??? wall wart, powerbanks etc?

Ralim commented 5 years ago

@whitehoose Looks to be on the money here, I cant really add much more here. The firmware number you are using looks like a miniware firmware rather than my own. I dont support their firmware here, for support with their firmware please use their forum as linked above.

You can also get really strange behavior like this if you try and flash TS100 firmware to a TS80 by accident.

IOIOIOIOIOI commented 5 years ago

Good day, thank you for your response.

Yes, it is a TS80 iron with the stock fw. I had these issue out of the box (I haven't reflashed it yet). Yes, it is the stock DN.OX power supply. I also used a bench power supply set to QC3 values, but the iron reports higher voltages and only draws 5W of power on heat up. My apologies for posting on this thread about the stock fw. I am unfamiliar with the different ones that are available.

I will try the MiniDSO 1.07 and Ralim's TS80 fw and see if it fixes the issues.

Thank you for the clear instructions and help. It is much appreciated.

IOIOIOIOIOI commented 5 years ago

Good day,

I tried MiniDSO 1.07 and Ralim's TS80 fw, but the issue persisted. I believe I might have a faulty iron, since the reported input voltage is still up to 6V higher than the actual input voltage on my bench power supply. At room temperature, the iron also reports 80degC.

I tried to use the calibrate temp function on Ramlin's firmware, but it still reports 80degC at room temperature.

whitehoose commented 5 years ago

When you say bench PSU set to QC3 .... I'm not certain just what that means. There are a some people who are circumventing QC3 ... but to be pedantic about it - the iron is designed to talk to QC to get whatever voltages it uses. Trouble is the QC3 "standard" is anything but. It appears its been reverse engineered, it really doesn't know if it's coming or going. I trust the DN.OX, so that's probably the safest starting point. Its nice to have another option simply because even a cert comes last occasionally.

I use a Ruideng USB um34c usb tester - and it's all reasonably consistent. From cold Vout 5v (whatever the source) begins ID negotiation within 2 sec. press button A - Iron starts heating QC activates - Iron shows 7.8v - 5w during heating, tester shows voltage "dancing" between 7 and 9.8v - 300c within 35 seconds with d25 tip. Volts settle at 7v This has been consistent as long as I've had the iron over a range of the sources that work for me.

If the DN/OX is being used with bad results It does sound like a faulty Iron (or a faulty psu).

If you bought from banggood I've found them pretty good - but they won't shift without a video of whatever you're talking to them about not doing (or doing) whatever it is. It sometimes needs a little lateral thinking to get your point across

Ralim commented 5 years ago

@IOIOIOIOIOI It honestly looks like your unit is faulty in its resistor bridge for reading the incoming dc voltage. I would flash stock and contact where you purchased from. This is not a software quirk and will prevent both mine and the miniware software working if its this far out of whack.