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Messages - LukeZ
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« on: June 16, 2025, 09:13:40 AM »
Hi Sub, I'm glad that's all it was, it's always good when the fix is an easy one!
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« on: June 14, 2025, 02:46:44 PM »
Hi Sub, I know of no reason why this wouldn't work, unless by accident you have set the Turret Rotation motor to something other than "RC Output" on the Motors tab of OP Config.
If that isn't the cause, as unusual as it might seem, I would have to assume your Mega board has a loose pin or is in some way physically faulty.
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« on: March 07, 2025, 08:47:31 AM »
Hi Dean, sorry for the hassle. It seems like the last update of OP Config didn't include that libusb0.dll in the installation files. It was a fairly major update and apaprently that file got overlooked.
I've updated the Windows Installer program on the Downloads page, even though it keeps the same version number as before (v0.94). Try uninstalling OP Config from your computer once more, then downloading the file from Downloads and re-install. You can confirm that libusb0.dll is present by looking in your OP Config installation folder (by default C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenPanzer\OPConfig\), it should be there.
Let me know if that fixes your problem or if you have any other issues.
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« on: March 06, 2025, 12:49:42 PM »
Hi Dean, sorry to hear about the mishap. I can't say for sure whether you'll be able to fix your Smoker port or not, it depends on what components were damaged. It almost sounds like this coincides with your connections problems, and if so that might indicate that something further upstream might have got fried as well, which would not be good. But let's assume that is not the case. You can try replacing the smoker MOSFET and see if that fixes that port. Here is the part number and a link to DigiKey: IPD090N03LGATMA1Fortunately it's a somewhat large part so shouldn't be too hard to unsolder and replace. I've highlighed the part in the image below. As for the libusb0.dll error, rather than trying to update OP Config using its built-in updater, first uninstall OP Config from your computer (there should be an uninstall item in your OP Config folder in the Start Menu, but otherwise you can do it from Windows Add/Remove Programs). Then go to the Downloads page and download the OP Config installer and run that. Maybe this re-install will fix your problem.
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« on: March 01, 2025, 01:38:13 PM »
That's a very interesting project Dean, I'll be looking forward to seeing what it looks like after you've printed it.
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« on: January 21, 2025, 08:05:44 AM »
I'm glad you got it working!
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« on: January 19, 2025, 10:12:37 AM »
Hi Paul, yes, I think you are getting to the relay circuit. The instructions on that page make clear that their smoke unit is intended to be connected to the throttle channel of the radio, meaning it provides smoke while driving, so it will not work with for barrel smoke.
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« on: January 19, 2025, 03:06:45 AM »
Hi Paul, I haven't experimented with the little circuit board that you show in your picture, but from what I can find on the internet it looks like it is intended to be used as "driving smoke" and not "barrel smoke." I suspect it wants you to attach the servo cable to your throttle channel, and smoke will be created as a function of your driving speed.
As Chris says you could try connecting the servo cable to the recoil servo output of the TCB. Maybe it will work or maybe not.
But what is guaranteed to work is the relay method described in the Wiki. You won't need the circuit that came with your smoker, but you can still use the air pump and the smoke box, just wire them as explained in the Wiki.
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« on: January 18, 2025, 10:16:55 AM »
Thanks for reporting back, I'm glad that's all it was!
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« on: January 18, 2025, 07:59:08 AM »
Hi Chris, have you tried swapping the motor wires? I haven't tested one of these units, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if Heng Long decided to use a red wire for negative...
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« on: January 17, 2025, 02:54:20 PM »
Hi Tanker, no the TCB doesn't have any gear-shift functionality.
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« on: January 13, 2025, 11:24:59 AM »
"Best" is relative to what you need or want. Benidini is certainly the best in terms of sound quality and options, but of course as Jürgen says, it's discontinued. The Chinese have cloned it, but I don't know how hard or easy it is to get the firmware for it. I'm sure it exists on the internet somewhere if you search for it.
The Open Panzer sound card is not in production, and the processor that it uses was discontinued forever during the Covid crisis, so that one is out.
The Taigen sound cards are cheap and plentiful, though of a lower sound quality.
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« on: January 05, 2025, 01:06:53 PM »
Thanks for testing Chris. As far as I can tell from your screenshots, the application looks the same on your hi-res screen as it does on mine, so that appears to be finally fixed. I've seen screenshots other users have posted before this update, and you're right, the text was all messed up and nearly unusable. It's shameful that this problem took so many years to resolve. I am extremely grateful to you for taking it upon yourself to work on this, for the benefit of everyone. I see from your commits on GitHub that you started tinkering a year ago this month! I know you must have spent a great deal of time and effort; just getting Qt going is a major undertaking.
I feel confident enough in these alterations now that I've accepted your pull request and the changes have been merged into the source repo.
I've also created an official new release (numbered 0.94 as you suggested), and it is posted to the Downloads page or available for updating within any prior version of OP Config.
Once again thanks for all your help. If you come across anything else that needs attention, just let me know.
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« on: January 02, 2025, 03:13:22 PM »
Hi Chris, I made a very slight change to the serial connection process which seems on my end at least to improve the reliability of connections to the board. I've committed them to your repo, if you want to test it out.
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« on: January 02, 2025, 08:16:55 AM »
Thanks for confirming, and also for fixing the Hex downloader. Since we're putting them now in the user's Downloads folder, it seems that we should put them in a folder with a better name than just "firmware," so I've changed that to OpenPanzer.
That was a good idea about InnoSetup removing those other files, and indeed that wasn't hard to do. I've gone ahead and had it remove both the Assistant cache as well as the hex downloads. I guess one could go either way on the second one, but if it were me I'd rather not have junk files laying around. Every hex can easily be downloaded from the website so it's not like the user can't recover them, even without OP Config.
I've committed these changes to your fork and a few other minor things.
If you make any other changes go ahead and also commit them to your fork rather than the source OP Config repo, and when it's stable I'll pull in the entire request.
Right now my setup is really crazy as I've kept the old version of Qt and everything else alongside the new, for dev purposes. But I'll clean it all up when we do the final over-write.
Are there other issues that we should address? I know there is the flakiness of the serial connection, that has always been an issue and I can revisit it but I don't think it is affected one way or the other by the upgrade to Qt6.
I should also say that I don't actually have a high-resolution monitor, so I can't really see what the program looks like in regards to the problem we were originally trying to fix. I assume it does look better?
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