Icom CI-V stepper

This revision is from 2019/05/12 22:20. You can Restore it.

Icom CI-V stepper allows tuning with stepper motor Nema 17 some devices dependancy to Icom frequency

Quick start guide

  1. Connect hardware (Stepper, Endstop switch, Power Supply, TX inhibit output, CAT)
  2. Configure over USB CLI

Connect

Endstop

Stepper

BCD input

CAT

TX Inhibit output

Power supply

USB Command Line Interface (CLI)

Firmware

For upload firmware you have two possibilities

  1. Download source from GitHub and compile in Arduino IDE
    1. Install EEPROM library
  2. Download compiled binary from release page and upload with some tool
    1. for example avrdude or Xloader for windows

Firmware source

contains some settings which does not available from CLI

  • You can enter frequency and uStep directly in to firmware without CLI wizard. How to
    • Disable preset coment line
      //#define RestoreMemoryFromEeprom
    • Write frequency and uSteps i to array
      unsigned long StorageFreqToStep[112][2] = {
  {7000000, 0},
  {7010000, 500},
  {7020000, 1000},
  {7030000, 1500},
  {7040000, 2000},
  ..
    • Upload firmware
    • Select BCD input to bank-0 (must be, because only bank-0 saved also frequency, higest bank saved uStep only)
    • Save frequency/uStep table from RAM to EEPROM with command s in CLI
    • Replay edit table, upload and save for any higher bank
    • After fill EEPROM to your liking, enable command in source file 
      #define RestoreMemoryFromEeprom
    • After upload frequency/uStep table will be set by preset selected bank. For more info use command l or e in CLI.
  • Time (second number in ms) after which reduce stepper current and save last position to eeprom, if disable endstop
    long CurrentRunTimeout[2] = {0,1000};
  • Enable serial debug if uncoment this line
    #define SERIAL_debug
  • CLI baudrate, default is 115200
    const int BAUDRATE0 = 115200;