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HW-130: Programmer flashes red FAIL light with HW-12x adapter in place


Record #758

Product Family:  Hardware

Product Line:  Programmers

Problem Title:
HW-130: Programmer flashes red FAIL light with HW-12x adapter in place


Problem Description:
HW-130: Programmer flashes red fail light when the HW-12x
adapter is in place, indicating that it thinks there is a
problem with the device loaded in the adapter, even though no
device is present.

Without the adapter in the programmer, the hw130 program complains
that there is no socket present.


Solution 1:

The HW-12x adapters (for example, HW-126-PC44) are manufactured
by LDI and were originally designed for the HW120 programmer.
These adapters are compatible with the HW130 programmer and
should program the 7300 parts properly, except that you may see
the problem described here.

What is happening is that the adapter is drawing some small
amount of current when the programmer is powering up, and this
causes the HW-130 to think that there is a part in the
programmer.

The workaround is to not insert the adapter until after you
have powered up the programmer and started up the HW130
software.  Insert the adapter just before you try to load the
PRG file.  The program will try to look for the
device as soon as you try to load in the PRG file.  You should
get a message saying that it sees an "LDI adapter". (With the
HW130 adapters, HW-13x, hw130 should indicate that it sees an
HW130 adapter.)



End of Record #758