marcos.placona
Senior Member
Hi guys, I bought a batch of three 08m's about 1 year ago, and kept them on the rawer for some time. I've used two of them in a regular basis, and yesterday I felt that I needed to use the last of them.
It was well stored in a dry place and still on it's isolation plastic (don't know the name of that). I put it on my breadboard to program it, as this one was supposed to go to an enclosure.
To my surprise, no matter what I tried, it wouldn't program. I know it's not a circuit problem, as it's the same circuit I use for all my 08m's (and I didn't change anything).
I then tried to hard reset it, but still it'd give me the famous message of "no hardware found on comX etc etc.."
I then tried to change the power supply (although it'd still work for other 08m's, but maybe this one was more power hungry), but still no go.
Has anybody here found anything like that to happen with a picaxe? It's weird, as it was the first time I was using it, and I'm sure I didn't fry.
Any comments or workarounds appreciated.
It was well stored in a dry place and still on it's isolation plastic (don't know the name of that). I put it on my breadboard to program it, as this one was supposed to go to an enclosure.
To my surprise, no matter what I tried, it wouldn't program. I know it's not a circuit problem, as it's the same circuit I use for all my 08m's (and I didn't change anything).
I then tried to hard reset it, but still it'd give me the famous message of "no hardware found on comX etc etc.."
I then tried to change the power supply (although it'd still work for other 08m's, but maybe this one was more power hungry), but still no go.
Has anybody here found anything like that to happen with a picaxe? It's weird, as it was the first time I was using it, and I'm sure I didn't fry.
Any comments or workarounds appreciated.