RESET circuit tweaks
Re: RESET circuit tweaks
Not really

I have been working on the STE boosters all this past week, plus now I have the PSU's to test and box up for my store.. plus I got distracted with my 3D printer, so not had time to make any more changes to the schematic lately

I need a good run of free time to sit down and look at all the gates to remove and change etc.. I may do some little LS replacement boards to test these changes.. but again.. time is not on my side at the moment

Once I get this stuff out of the way, I hope I can start making more changes to the thing.. though mainly its spending the video dac board more than anything.
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Re: RESET circuit tweaks
Right - tried the inverse diode, resistor, cap & switch combo using my makeshift reset circuit hack 
Initially I used 10uF and 10K as per the original circuit but that was a no go. Turn on and reset press did nothing as it just sat at white screen.
Reduced the resistor to 1K and on switch on nothing white screen but on reset press it resets (boots) so we are missing the initial reset on power on.

Initially I used 10uF and 10K as per the original circuit but that was a no go. Turn on and reset press did nothing as it just sat at white screen.
Reduced the resistor to 1K and on switch on nothing white screen but on reset press it resets (boots) so we are missing the initial reset on power on.
Re: RESET circuit tweaks
Check the voltage on the cap, it should drop to 0v (or close to) on power down, it should "track" the 5V rail dropping.
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Re: RESET circuit tweaks
Yes the voltage on the cap drops to 0v on power down. Was wondering if we needed a different cap value and tried a 22uF the power down tracking of the 5V rail was better but still no reset on boot.
Re: RESET circuit tweaks
Odd.. The cap at 0v on power up means reset is pulled high.. Then as the cap charges, reset starts going low.
Something like 10k and 47uf. Should work... I guess it may need 22k even. Higher values will struggle to charge the cap up.
Something like 10k and 47uf. Should work... I guess it may need 22k even. Higher values will struggle to charge the cap up.
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Re: RESET circuit tweaks
Seem to of got it working with 1.5K and 47uF. Been playing around with different values.
This seems to be the best so far but there is still an oddity sometimes when hitting the reset button quickly the screen jumps stays on the desktop but its frozen and the res got bigger i.e. the borders got smaller.
It you hold the reset button down for about a second in this state it resets
This seems to be the best so far but there is still an oddity sometimes when hitting the reset button quickly the screen jumps stays on the desktop but its frozen and the res got bigger i.e. the borders got smaller.
It you hold the reset button down for about a second in this state it resets
Re: RESET circuit tweaks
Cleaned up old reset circuit ready for new one. Reset switch swapped to be +5V.
Re: RESET circuit tweaks
Might be iffy contacts on the switch maybe ?
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Re: RESET circuit tweaks
Re: RESET circuit tweaks
I guess thats the problem with switches, it would be better if it driven a "one shot" timer like the 555..

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