P10 Panel Tester

David_AVD

David_AVD

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I was asked at the QLD mini if I could make a P10 panel tester. It would simply cycle colours so you can see if there are any bad LEDs.

I've written some new firmware for one of my boards that plugs straight into the P10 data input. The board is powered from the same 5V as the panel.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J04B66nseyU
 
Nice.
That was a project that I've thought about for a while but been too lazy to do.
Will it do the other scan rate panels?
 
The only panels I have a "standard" 1/8 scan type so I haven't done any other code.

I have a small number of boards in stock so could sell them any time.
 
Take my money......
So that took you a day.....:eek:
Next year I’ll set you a harder task ! :D
Seriously it looks good, put me down for one
Cheers
Fing
 
David_AVD said:
I was asked at the QLD mini if I could make a P10 panel tester. It would simply cycle colours so you can see if there are any bad LEDs.

I've written some new firmware for one of my boards that plugs straight into the P10 data input. The board is powered from the same 5V as the panel.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J04B66nseyU
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That's awesome.

When you say one of your boards, are you talking about the tune to sign board you have? If so I have two of those so is it possible to update the firmware and can it still be used as a tune to sign?

Cheers
 
If I did a new PCB I could probably have it test different scan ratios and/or panel sizes.

The current tune-to boards only support 1/8 scan.
 
Have been talking with AAH. Apparently a HC-1W could do it easy. Just load a test sequence from USB and it's good to go.

It supports 8 "sequences" that can be advanced with push button. There could also be different USB images for the different scan rates.

PROs: Already made & pretty cheap.

CONs: Someone has to make the sequences. Not as compact / neat as a dedicated PCB.
 
Might try this with my HC-1W
I've been having issues with the HC-1W getting it to recognise the different panels. Might try with just 1 panel to see if it's easier.
 
David_AVD said:
CONs: Someone has to make the sequences. Not as compact / neat as a dedicated PCB.
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When you say someone has to make them, do you mean each end user makes them for their own testing purposes, or we just need someone to create a set of test sequences of various effects that can be loaded for all boards?
If the latter, I'm happy to put something together?
 
I meant that someone (not me) would have to make up suitable USB images.

As far as I know there's nothing locking a set of files to a particular HC-1W.
 
I had thought about creating some test images and either hosting them here or on my site. Initially I'd just do P10 1/8th scan as that's all I have on hand to test with.
 
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