Eye Question

[flaw101]

When your eyes are enabled, is the eye that lights up suppose to be solid or blinking?

[SPECIALNEEDS]

blinking

[S1NN3R]

When your eyes are enabled, is the eye that lights up suppose to be solid or blinking?

Are you talking about the atual eye itself, or the indicator on the back of the grip frame? The eye in the breech should be on solid, the indicator should blink.

[boostmonkey]

The eye blinks.








It blinks at about 100 hz though, so to the human eye it appears to be on steadily.

[boostmonkey]

Wait, am minute, I just remembered that it is Halo eyes that are pulsed at just over 100 hz. I had not had enough coffee yet when I wrote that. It has been a long weekend...

I don't think I have ever put an oscilloscope on WDP eyes to see what the board is doing. I would do it right now if I had my Angel here at work with me.

Sorry for the confusion.

[flaw101]

I was talking about the eye itself. I sent my gun off to ano and I honestly could not remember if the eyes were suppose to be solid or blinking.

Right now mine are blinking when turned on. I am running a Un1 board and Tadao chip. The eyes appear to be functioning according to the led on the board (blinking blue with nothing in the breech, solid blue when object inserted, blinking yellow when blocked, back to blinking blue when unblocked, forced shot working).

I tested 2 sets of eyes(wdp ribbon in the gun and Lucky DM eyes outside the body) and they both blink.I know my current battery is pretty low (blinking red on initial startup). Would that have anything to do with the eyes itself just blinking(not having enough power to have a solid beam)?

Thanks again for the help.

[boostmonkey]

LED driver circuits usually pulse LEDs rather than run a steady current through them to save power. LED perceived brightness and actual power consumption are not linear. It is common practice to pulse the LED at 5v or 9v or something convenient and then modify the pulsewidth to achieve the desired brightness.

In the anti-chop-eyes case, the board is going to periodically check the breach to see if something is there. It may check 100, 200, or 1000 times a second. It is only necessary to turn the LED on just before you check the detector for presence of a ball. So the LED probably is pulsed. I suppose you could turn the LED on constantly and trip an interrupt on ball detection, but that's not how I'd do it.

If the emitter eye is pulsing slowly enough for you to see it, well, that doesn't sound right. Try a fresh battery. Maybe Lucky is checking for ball presence after you pull the trigger? Notice anything like that?

[flaw101]

Tried a new battery and the emitter eye is still slowly pulsing.