I'll use an old video cam to see witch LED
isn't sending, Sony has an
excellent 'night view"mode witch is very IR sensitive.
I can think of at least 3 problems with that
approach :
1) It only checks the emitters, not the detectors
(or the path through the
4051 muxes)
Yes I know, but it is excluding the most obvious faults (the led's).
AAcutally, I would think the most obvious fault would be dirt build-up on
the opto-devices. Which a video camera won't detect if it's on the
phototransistors, and while you might see that one LED looks dimmer than
it should do, wil lyou know if it's the dirt is dimming it too much to work?
3) I am not
sure my video camera has much sensitivity in the IR. It depends
on which vidicon is
fitted, I think.
Yes, stupid of me I should have known, mea culpa ;-)
I cna't beelive you've forgotten my taste for older devices :-)
Do you have the HP 150 technical reference ?
Yes, and the HP150-II suplement.
I don't find it that good. The schematics are
incomplete, there's at least
one error (in that what is shown couldn't work
>correctly), and I think
there are some other differences with the mahcines I have. The programming
information is not >that clear either (e.g. the section o nthe commands ot
the 8042 doesn't explain what the touchscreen diagnostic >command does if
there are more than 2 blocked beams)
Yes but it's better then nothing...
It is, indeed. I am just warning you to take care and not follow the
manual blindly.
-tony