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Re: Experimenting with Jalapeno firmware...
by
lightfoot
on 17/09/2013, 02:13:28 UTC
My Jalapeno has stopped working with LED1 flashing quickly. When I try to interface with it using my Dragon, I am unable to reprogram it, as I get a message: Read voltage 0.3V is outside selected device's operating range: 3.0V to 3.6V.

Has anyone encountered this issue? Any solutions?
Maybe your power supply is shot?

Thanks for suggesting inspecting the power adapter. Took a multimeter to it. Got 121.8V from the wall and 13.48V from the barrel connector so all seems good with the power adapter.

Power cycling the Jalapeno a few times has done nothing. All I get is the blinking red light from LED1 indicating a short circuit. I think my Jalapeno is dead.
Crud. Want to sell it? I'd offer $150 for playing with it.

Alternately I flashed my JP with CK's code and I think I'm going to stick with it. Same speed as my code tweaks, but with < 1% errors (I was getting 2.5% or so) and several degrees less heat. I think his code turns off cores that are shot (I have several) and clocks up the remaining ones (to compensate).

As a side note, if anyone in the Baltimore/Laurel MD area wants to bring their jally over for a flash I'll do it for free/tips/whatever with my Dragon and atmel. I think ck's code is good, will drop him/her a tip if I can find her btc wallet.

C