- Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:29 pm
#172441
Hi all.
This is my first sparkfun kit, but I'm generally experienced with getting together various electronics kits overall.
I followed the directions, tried to make sure all of my connections were good and clean, verified values of the caps with a cap meter prior to soldering. When I plug in the clockit, the display just blinks, with the buzzer stopping and going along with it (I'm guessing this is the "alarm" behavior?). Sliding the alarm on/off switch, or pressing any combination of the buttons does not seem to alter this behavior. I'd briefly thought that maybe somehow I had to program this, but I was under the impression the controller chip was pre-programmed.
Any tips would be great. Thanks!
Video of the behavior:
http://madrigal.is-lost.org:4600/VID_20 ... 164626.mp4
I may not be able to keep the images and video up for too long (didn't see attach option for this forum), but hopefully this is a common problem and I won't have to. Thanks again.
This is my first sparkfun kit, but I'm generally experienced with getting together various electronics kits overall.
I followed the directions, tried to make sure all of my connections were good and clean, verified values of the caps with a cap meter prior to soldering. When I plug in the clockit, the display just blinks, with the buzzer stopping and going along with it (I'm guessing this is the "alarm" behavior?). Sliding the alarm on/off switch, or pressing any combination of the buttons does not seem to alter this behavior. I'd briefly thought that maybe somehow I had to program this, but I was under the impression the controller chip was pre-programmed.
Any tips would be great. Thanks!
Video of the behavior:
http://madrigal.is-lost.org:4600/VID_20 ... 164626.mp4
I may not be able to keep the images and video up for too long (didn't see attach option for this forum), but hopefully this is a common problem and I won't have to. Thanks again.