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Re: Help with a V6 BITX

 

Hi Evan,
Thank you for your response.

This is? the part that does not make sense to me.
Testing the three pins on the encoder to ground (with the power off) show no continuity.
Measuring all three pins with the power on to ground show the 5 volts

As? mentioned above, I am able to check the encoder with my DVM, so the encoder seems to be working.

Just for kicks, I disconnected the wires on the encoder one at a time, then both the brown and black wires at the same time, and "touched" them to the pin of the encoder to see what it would do.
Then I disconnected the yellow (common) wire, (after reconnecting the brown and black wires) and did the same, and nothing happened.


I would assume that the Yellow wire should be the common, and should be the ground wire, but am not familiar enough with this rig to be sure.

Just to further check, I also disconnected the red wire (push to enter) and also made no change. 5V on all wires.

I am wondering if there is a problem with the Raduino.?

If the original owner had put the Raduino in backwards, would have this damaged it? It seems that the board is not "keyed" in any way.

Thanks for your help!
73, John W4JPL

On Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 09:09:34 AM EST, Evan Hand <elhandjr@...> wrote:


Hi John,

Can you verify that you have a ground connection to the encoder?? Check on the center pin of the three pins on the side.? The encoder works by grounding the lines to the Raduino.

All of the internal encoder switches may be bad, but not likely.? Since none of the encoder functions work, I suspect a ground issue exists.

If you have another Nano or are comfortable with reprogramming the Nano in the V6, here is a sketch that can test an encoder:


The tricky part of using the existing Nano is returning to the current program.? You stated it was used before you got it, so you may not know which of many firmware has been installed.

73
Evan
AC9TU

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