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Group: DynoMotion Message: 10546 From: develo_jon Date: 11/23/2014
Subject: Kflop damage

Tom,


Frankly it is amazing and a credit to you that my Kflop has survived the last two years of abuse in so many different configurations with dubious power supplies and my electronics experiments!


However....I had a over-eager play with a new (to me) 1982 Denford Easiturn lathe with limited documentation for the 8086 processor and gubins (I have been surprised that I found no valves).   I discovered that the logic signals to the stepper driver units are 12V along a little later than would have been timely and unfortunately had already wired up the Kflop and I had mis-identified a connection:(


I then used the same KFlop using a KStep board attached by JP7 and the lathe sprung very happily into life, so I suspect the damage to the Kflop board is limited but wonder what I am going to discover later..  I am confident there is no step and direction signal on JP4.


The 12 volts will have gone to JP4 :(


Is there a test procedure that will be quicker than me testing every IO to determine the extent of the damage? 


I suspect it is going to be fine for the XZ stepper lathe without repair...


best,


Jon


Group: DynoMotion Message: 10548 From: Tom Kerekes Date: 11/23/2014
Subject: Re: Kflop damage
Hi Jon,

Sorry to hear that.  I can't think of a better way to test the board than by testing every IO.  It sounds like the FPGA IO pins have been damaged.  It is unlikely to have other parts of the board damaged and to have the board work at all.  If you are skilled at PCB surface mount repair the part is:XC3S100E-4TQG144C.

Regards
TK