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Re: KStar not storing maps when powered down
« Reply #10 on: 12 March 2012, 22:17 »
he asked me to try to track down a comms cable for it. i had no luck. maybe he's binned it now for something with more computing power than a speak&spell

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Re: KStar not storing maps when powered down
« Reply #11 on: 12 March 2012, 22:24 »
I've got the diagram for the comms cable if its required, I made my own from stuff off the shelf at work.

Also required is a windows 95 laptop and the software that runs in DOS  :grin:

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Re: KStar not storing maps when powered down
« Reply #12 on: 13 March 2012, 18:52 »
Not really alot to it, gave it to my business partner earlier who identified all the chips and diagnosed the eeprom as faulty, gonna solder in a new eeprom when it arrives, he thinks that will sort it out. Really pretty basic electronics compared to what he does! He makes his own PCB's and programmes his own chips with stuff he has written.

He thinks that when I write to unit, it is saving in the flash memory but not writing the eeprom, so the flash memory is being lost when the unit powers down.

I spoke to Vince at Stealth earlier and he says its not a common fault with these...