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Thread: Crystal Focus TROUBLESHOOTING thread...

  1. #81

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    Quote Originally Posted by AngelOmega View Post
    Hey all, I’m in the middle of an install, and seem to have hit a problem. My board doesn’t detect swing sounds. I’ve talked with Erv and he said it is most likely a bad capacitor, and told me how to find it on the board voltage map.
    Only problem is... I’m not sure what exactly the board voltage map is. I had figured it was something in RICE, but for the life of me I can’t find it. Anyone know how to access that?
    CFX.jpg

    I believe he was referring to that smaller yellow cap just to the right of the back side of the micro USB port.

  2. #82

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    There is a voltage map picture early on in the manual, the one to replace is the one with the 14V arrow.

  3. #83

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    I picked up a CF-X last week along with most of the electronic components. As a test, I wired everything up to a breadboard; I'm getting some really weird behavior and I'm about stumped.

    I have: CF-X, RG Royal Blue Tri-Cree, 2 momentary switches, a cheapo .5 W 8 ohm speaker (haven't ordered the real thing yet; just for test). There is no battery involved, and no recharge port (yet). Right now I have the whole thing connected up on a breadboard and using a variable benchtop power supply to provide 3.7v.

    I'm using the SD-card as it came with the only tweak being that I fiddled with the "valsnd" a bit to see if I could get something more intelligible. I can get the board to boot up, but then it starts acting strangely-- First, the bootup sound is sometimes unrecognizable-- I think I've tracked it down to one of the Nightfall boot sounds (boot3, specifically), but it cuts off after about half a second or so. It always plays this same cut-off boot sound. I can get into the soundbank selection menu by holding the aux switch when starting to applying power, and it plays the "soundbank selection" voice, and then the menu background sound just fine. However, as soon as I let go of the auxiliary switch, it goes back to the boot sound. From what I can tell from reading the manual, holding the aux switch at power up should put me into the soundbank menu where I can then release the aux switch and then press the activation or aux switches to navigate and hear the font title sounds; however pressing the activation switch seems to just play the boot sound, and as mentioned letting go of the aux switch also plays the boot sound, then subsequently does nothing unless I hold it.

    I can get it to beep at me if I hold the aux switch for 1.5 seconds, and the "click to confirm" on the aux switch appeared to be working when I had "valsnd=1".

    I tested all of the voltages on the voltage map and the one that says +14v is actually reading about +8v for me. The others appear to be fine, from what I can tell (tiny contacts makes it a little hard).

    Any thoughts?

  4. #84

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    All right, an update. I finally got some time to do some USB debugging on the card and got back some errors (see below). Having seen a number of notices about formatting the SD card around, I figured I'd give that a try. Fresh (non-quick) format to FAT32, and copy of the prior contents of the SD card back on, and it's still doing it.

    Code:
    Init SD failed - Insert valid SD card
    SDHC init
    Init SD failed - Insert valid SD card
    SDHC init
    high speed turbo mode clock = 50000000
    SDHC turbo clock mode
    File System Mounted OK
    SDHC Init success
    SPECS:Sectors 15523840 (7680MB)
    SD Clock (CSD) 25000000 Hz
    SD Clock 50000000 Hz
    Type SD
    SD Version 3.0
    High Speed
    Card Installed
    Initialized
    Plecter Labs Crystal Focus
    v 10.001 - 11/2019
    Init Motion Sensor
    WHO_AM_I_M = 3D - WHO_AM_I_XG = 68
    Success
    Allocating DMA channel...DMA Ch# 0
    Status: OK
    I2S DMA Ch=0
    I2S CLOCK source = 90312500
    Setting up audio DMA transfer
    Adding Audio DMA callback
    [BOOT] Scanning SD contents:
    Found 14 FONT(S)
    Found tracks folder : /tracks
    (Last) Selected Sound Bank : 1
    
    
    Special Settings File Found
    
    [ERROR] : Problems were found during boot
    [ERROR] : Boot diag value = 0b1
    [ERROR] : Error Counter = 0
    Lookup font #1 on path /1-NIGHTFALL
    Check font sanity on path /1-NIGHTFALL
    [FONT] file humM1.wav not found
    [FONT] max Boot: 4
    [FONT] max Power on: 4
    [FONT] max Clash: 16
    [FONT] max Swing: 16
    [FONT] max Hum: 1
    [FONT] max Blaster: 4
    [FONT] max Spin: 4
    [FONT] max Stab: 4
    [FONT] max Pre-ON: 0
    [FONT] max Post-OFF: 0
    [FONT] max End Lockup: 4
    [FONT] max Combo: 4
    [FONT] max SmoothSwing High: 0
    [FONT] max SmoothSwing Low: 0
    [FONT] max Local Tracks: 0
    [FONT] max iSaber Tracks: 1
    [FONT] is monophonic
    Config load & parse time = 128 ms
    DMA read didn't complete
    [DISKIO] error
    [DISKIO] error
    [FILE] extra/UI/beep.wav not found
    [DISKIO] error
    [DISKIO] error
    I immediately notice a couple of things:

    Code:
    [ERROR] : Problems were found during boot
    [ERROR] : Boot diag value = 0b1
    [ERROR] : Error Counter = 0
    ...
    ...
    Config load & parse time = 128 ms
    DMA read didn't complete
    [DISKIO] error
    [DISKIO] error
    [FILE] extra/UI/beep.wav not found
    [DISKIO] error
    [DISKIO] error
    There is definitely a file located at extra/UI/beep.wav that sounds like a beep to me. Incidentally, the speaker does play a beep sound, but not the same beep (more like that loud annoying beep your computer makes when it boots), about when it complains about that file missing.

  5. #85

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    Hello Everyone. I recently completed a build using CFX, and everything has been working well except for the recharge port. The audio keeps indicating that the battery charge is low, but when I plug in the charger into the port, the charger still indicates a full charge. I am using the switchcraft 2.1 power jack which is threaded into the body of the saber and the smart charger from TCSS. I can confirm that the charger is making full contact with the port, but it results in the board accent LED and the external accent LED to flicker regularly and occasionally the charger will flash red. I double checked the wiring and soldering, and everything seems good. Has anyone had experience with this happening? Also the battery is a 18650 3.7 3400 mAh battery.

  6. #86

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    You either have a faulty recharge port, charger OR there is a wiring issue with your recharge port.
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  7. #87

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    Hey hello fellow saber builders! I got crystal focus x and wired everything up. Testing it everything works except the main led. The leds are good and working. The accent light lights up too. Can someone advise and help me out here? Please thank you!

  8. #88

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    Please post your main configuration file.
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  9. #89

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    Quote Originally Posted by Forgetful Jedi Knight View Post
    Please post your main configuration file.
    Thanks


    //CF-X Configuration
    debug=0
    logport=0
    vol=90
    menuvol=100
    menugest=0
    beep=20
    muteb=0
    muteoff=0
    sleep=50000
    deep=0
    qkignite=0
    orient=0
    valsnd=0
    switch=2
    offp=0
    offd=200
    onp=0
    ond=20
    swing_flow=360
    clash_flow=300
    spin_flow=400
    smooth_flow=1000
    lockup=300
    loop=1
    shuffle=2
    plilh=3400,4200
    omnisabers=1000
    bladepower=30
    ledstrip=0
    auxstrip=0
    tridentstrip=0
    accentstrip=0
    dragstrip=20
    strippower=1111
    ls1_timings=340,700,24,1,3
    ls2_timings=340,700,24,1,3

    ## Motion Settings
    gate=50
    smooth_gate=50
    hswing=450
    hhybrid=550
    hslash=400
    hforce=300
    hfclash=650
    hclash=850
    hstab=500,-20,20
    hspin=750
    htwist=350
    hdrag=500,-90,0
    htemp=40
    spectrum_mode=0
    spectrum_axis=0
    field=10,10,10


    [profile=0]
    wakeup=1
    randc=0
    blastp=0
    random=2
    pom=0
    pof=0
    poi=0
    magic=0
    saberlock=0
    blastm=0
    randb=2
    shmrd=150
    shmrp=12
    shmrr=24
    shmr%=60,99
    focd=200
    focp=20
    focr=28
    foc%=60,99
    focl=1
    focb=1
    focf1=1
    focf2=1
    focf3=0
    fade=0
    flks=6
    flkd=25
    tridentflk=0
    flkon=1
    flkoff=1
    pulsed=0
    pulsel=0
    on_fade=1
    off_fade=1
    unstable=0
    style_pon=0
    style_poff=0
    style_lockup=1
    style_drag=2
    style_blaster=2
    style_flicker=1
    style_clash=1
    style_stab=0
    over_pon=0
    over_poff=0
    mapping_unstable=1
    mapping_lockup=1
    mapping_drag=1
    mapping_flicker=1
    mapping_color=0
    pos_lockup=60
    size_lockup=40
    hcool=70
    lcool=0
    sparkf=120
    sparkd=10
    drift=1
    mapb=100
    mapc=70
    refreshfx=12
    omnisabers=0
    sbolt=8,20
    dbolt=40,810
    lbolt=15,30
    fbolt=1
    rbolt=10
    qbolt=50

  10. #90

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    Make the following change: strippower=0000
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    1. Forum Guidelines
    2. FJK’s “Down and Dirty” guide to Ohm’s Law

    "Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before... you want blindingly bright, super loud, running 1138 blinkies off of the cheapest sound card you can find AND you want all of it to run on a battery the size of a dime, and run for a very, VERY long time. That one cracks me up every time..."
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