PM me if you want me to do that for you.

Happy Birthday by the way.

Thanks & thanks!

PM coming shortly.

I'd really like to get one of these, but you don't accept PayPal and I'm not in the US. Cheques don't exist in Europe any more. Can we swap for goods?

Rob, you know I can send you stuff...

Rob,

Actually, perhaps a bulk US to Europe order could be placed and then once received, distributed within Europe?

I would be happy to place the bulk order and take responsibility for distribution (I'm in the UK). I might even be tempted to place an RS components order and offer both bare boards and board+components kits.

Happy Birthday Michael!

I'm working on it.. I don't know right yet. Hopefully I'll have something soon.

As for those outside of USA, Do your banks offer online billpay? Mine does and I can set up anyone to receive a bank MO (no cost in terms of the check - can't say for the service - my bank offers it free). I paid a guy for a Logic Analyzer via bank billpay.

Just a thought..

-Ben

p.s. Sorry I didn't see these sooner. Please email me directly - I'll get back to you much much much faster. bkamen AT benjammin DOT net.

Can only speak for myself, but yes, I do pay all my bills online (ie all the stuff from inside Sweden - rent, CCs, utilities etc - some of the bills even arrive in electronic format directly in the online bank), and can freely push money to others accounts (within Sweden), but an international money transfer they charge extra for. Within EU they typically charge €3 on the sending end - receiving bank also charges a fee and you have the option to pay for that from the sending end, to ensure the full amount actually reaches the recipient..

For non-EU money orders my bank charges ~$US 20 IIRC... and IME the receiving bank takes a chunk as well.

As it is, I'll be buying/paying through robricc.

Okay, I think there are enough people in Europe that are interested in this, so I am going to order 10 or 20. I intend to make them available both as bare boards and with parts at cost.

Replying to an old post...

Quote:
genixia:
Are there suitable fans with tach output?

benjammin:
supposedly... you can get just about any fan with a tach output from most companies...

It's not exactly plenty of slim 40mm fans with speed sensor... I found two, but one was too noisy. This was only looking in the Farnell catalogue though. Did find another one that might fit, but it was 25mm only, so would probably need some modification to install it...

Checked this since I also requested two MAX6651 when I sent the request for the DS1721...

Genixia, still up for being bribed into adding PWM when I manage to make some boards for the 6651..?

Stig

And now I'm replying to my own post...

After I had read the datasheet a bit better and also rebootet my brain , I don't know if there is much point in making the board with the 6651... That chip is only a fan controller where you set the speed and the chip keeps the fan at the preset speed. It doesn't contain a temperature sensor, so either it would need to rely on the built-in temperature sensor in the Empeg or it would need an external temperature sensor. The fan wouldn't be PWM controlled either, it would be voltage controlled, as PWM and tach signals doesn't mix very well...

And since Ben has already made boards with the temperature controller, so unless people want this type of board and someone makes the patch for Hijack, I'll just stop this project. But if someone wants some boards, it wouldn't take long to do the layout and make some boards, since I can make them at home...

Stig

You very funny man..


Also, I apologize, I completely forgot about the 6651 - I look at it too and saw all the busy-work involved... but I never mentioned it here.

Oops. Kick me later.

-Ben

Okay, just put in an order for one of these guys. So who all has done this install? What fan did you use? How did you mount it? Photos?!

Only two people? I thought there were tons of orders for the board.

Thanks for the pointers. I'll be doing it as soon as I get the board.

Don't panic on the fan!

I think I got mine here:

http://www.mpja.com/viewallpict.asp?dept=48&main=46


4x40 plastic screws work fine and I got mine at the local hardware store!

I have pics on my website in the Projects section...

If everyone needs, I'll take some hi-rez ones with my better digital camera and make them available.

-Ben

So the fan can be a 12v OR a 5v?

I got the board... nice work!

Now, could someone who has it installed and working post photos of the install? I'd really appreciate it!

Here's the instructions I have from Ben so far:

V+ is +12
GND is Ground.
Fan + and Fan - are the plus/minus leads from the fan. (12v Fan, of course)
SDA and SCL are the "Serial Clock" and "Serial Data" lines from the processor.
I have a photo of the 2 points in my Projects section... the second to last is
"dark" with highlight areas around the resistors, but it s doesn's say which is
SCL and which is SDA;

SDA can be found on the RIGHT HAND END of the resistor marked 1003 nearest
the top left corner of the strongarm (display board towards you).

SCL can be found on the TOP END of the resistor marked 1003 directly to the
right of the centre mounting hole.

12v can be found on both pins of the through-hole pad marked Fan, however I'm not sure whether this is regulated or unregulated 12v nor whether the controller is fussy about it. If this is suitable, I'd suggest soldering a 2-pin header through the holes, then soldering the 12v line to a jumper and plugging the jumper onto the header. I don't know of a good place to get GND (that is, so it is easy to undo). You could splice one of the cables or solder onto the back of one of the sockets (perhaps the serial D socket), but most seem to simply opt for soldering a wire to the pad ("collar") around one of the PCB screws.

I thought there was a 2-pin through-hole pad marked I2C or IIC towards one corner of the MK2A board somewhere. Maybe I'm wrong and there is only an IIS pad, not an I2C pad as well.

It might be useful to create a new album on riocar.org with hi-res photos of the front and back of each PCB board including the add-on boards - that would have certainly helped with the creation of the memory manual.

[Edit: fix spelling and clarify]

So this fan should work perfect then eh?

I'll try and take some photos this week and ask a few more questions before I go soldering willy nilly. Thanks!

Check the depth of the fan and the noise rating. I'd suggest a fan with a noise rating of 20-26dB(A). Much less than 20dB(A) won't be worth the probable extra cost unless you are going to modify the shape of the holes in the lid. Beyond about 24dB(A) will be increasingly noticeable in a quiet room or with the engine off. You'll almost certainly need to modify the drive bay if you use a 20mm deep fan. 12mm or 10mm depth will be okay. 6mm deep fans tend to be a bit quieter but have less surface area so can't push quite as much air around.

Whoa, that's not the link i meant to post. I meant either this or this.

Ah, there you go.

K, I ordered a few.

Okay. Got 'em. There's a third wire which, according to this option and this option, means that it they do have "BY IMPEDANCE WITH THIRD WIRE SPEED SENSOR (TACH OUTPUT)" (copied from their site). Interesting? I dunno.... can you guys do anything with that? I'm guess I can just cut that wire off...

So. I'm going to go take the empeg apart and take some photos of where I gather I should be soldering things in before I go ahead and do it so I can make sure I'm doing it right. Be back in a few.

ignore, image storage post =]