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Both Manual and Digital contol?
progen
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Posted on 08/01/2022 12:39 AM
It's weird that I got a strange problem lately. During testing, everything worked fine and I could control the SSR manually via a pot and only used the light dimmer module's ZCD feature. All nice and good.

But today, whenever I turned on the light dimmer module, IO2's light will start flashing and OT1 will be outputting a signal around 30% regarding of whether the pins to the pot are plugged in or not. The setup is also not responding to the pot.

It's fine when I comment out the Analogue 1 line in user.h but the problem comes back when I comment in Analogue 1 again.
 
renatoa
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Posted on 08/01/2022 2:33 AM
Check your pot integrity.
Is the cursor (middle pin) voltage changing according to rotation ?
 
progen
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Posted on 08/01/2022 4:47 AM

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renatoa wrote:

Check your pot integrity.
Is the cursor (middle pin) voltage changing according to rotation ?


The thing is I get this problem the very moment I activate Analogue 1 in user.h even if the pot is not connected. All 3 pins unplugged. It starts the moment I turn on the light dimmer module.
 
progen
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Posted on 08/01/2022 6:21 AM
If I recall correctly, Devices in Artisan Scope should be Arduino 5/6 and 7/8. I don't know why mine because 3/4 and 5/6 but should Artisan settings influence the Arduino / TC4+ even when the software isn't running?

Anyway, what I did was reset Devices, Extra Devices and added back Arduino 5/6 and Arduino 7/8 and now it works fine.

Guess this is one of those little glitches that once you've encountered it before, you never worry if you see it again.
 
progen
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Posted on 08/01/2022 6:22 AM
Damn, spoke too soon. Problem came back. At 3.3V, I can only go up to 68% on the heater but at 5V, I can go up to a full 100%. All working fine during testing but it's giving me problems when I'm using the 5V. When I go back down to 3.3V and reset everything, it's fine.
 
progen
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Posted on 08/01/2022 6:41 AM
Sorry for the false alarm. It seems that bending the pot's pins to the TC4+ solved all of the problems.
 
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