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Programmers: HW-130: Programmer flashes red FAIL light with HW-12x (7300) adapter in place
Record #758
Product Family: Hardware Urgency: Standard General 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 - Last Modified: 07/29/99 18:16 |
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