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Hardware, Cabling, Installations / FT857D - 5V (or 8V) routed to Control AUX/MIC connector?

« on: 2013-06-27, 18:58:46 »

Hi,

The FT857D provides +5V on pin 3 of its RJ45 mic socket, which is useful for low-power accessories. This doesn't get replicated on the RRC1258MkII Control AUX/MIC socket with the standard strappings (I have the FT857D "bundle"). Is there an easy way to do it, i.e. does one of the unused pins have a voltage capable of supplying a small amount of current (say 10mA), so that it would simply be a case of adding one more strap? If that's not possible, any other suggestions please

Regards, Mark

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General discussion forum / Re: Deteriorating setup (FT857D)

« on: 2013-06-05, 16:26:43 »

Thanks for the reply Mike.

I was aware of the situation with the FT857D, but I have now put the radio-end remoterig box on its own PSU and the situation is exactly the same. Anyway, it used to work 100% fine, so I'm wondering what has changed? I just hope it is not something being damaged slowly, that will eventually fail.

There's a possibility the power-on problem got worse after a firmware update, but that might just be coincidence. I will try an older version and see what happens.

Mark

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General discussion forum / Deteriorating setup (FT857D)

« on: 2013-06-05, 11:16:17 »

Hi,

I've had an FT857D remoterig setup working well and in constant use for about 6 months.

In the last few weeks I've noticed it's becoming more and more difficult to get the rig to power on. When I press the faceplate's power switch I get the three cycles, (some ethernet packets too) then nothing. On the shack webcam I can see what looks like a red LED from somewhere (it's too far to view) also cycling three times. After what seems to be an increasing number of attempts (sometimes some minutes) the rig will eventually come on.

I can (and do) remotely recycle the rig's 12V PSU. I also tried changing the PSU (from SMPS to linear) but that made no difference.

One thing I might be doing wrong is powering the radio remoterig box from the same 12V PSU as the rig - could that be the problem? I'm trying to narrow down where to look before randomly changing things!

Thanks,

Mark

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General discussion forum / Re: IC706MK2g and Computer control via HRD

« on: 2012-05-09, 09:55:36 »

@Steve M0BPQ - I know this is an old topic, but did you get your setup working? I have the same problems as you describe, using v1 boxes and an IC706MK2 - would be interesting to know if you found a fix!

Mark EI3KD