05-11-2021, 04:09 AM
Hello to all.
it's been a long time since this post. I've wrote to pine64 to expose the problem, and they kindly sent a new working one to me. However, I needed to try and resolve this problem.
It appears that the problem was caused by a succession of events :
The iron was first working, but suddenly displayed a crazy, steady temperature.
It was then auto-calibrated, which gives back a normal temperature on the screen, but says that there is no tip.
After thinking that maybe the tip is broken for whatever reason, I've tried every one I had (the one that came with plus the four tips in the kit), each one of them bringing the same "tip disconnected" message.
Here is the trick : when I've started to have this crazy temperature, it was because of a dead tip. And I've recalibrated the iron with this dead tip, so every other one I tried didn't appears, because the software sees whatever resistive value beyond the threshold of a working tip. By recalibrating the iron with each other tips, I finally had it back, with the normal behavior of dead tips having the display saying "disconnected", and working ones displaying the temperature.
Hope it will help ! And that maybe a check could be added to the hardware / software ?
it's been a long time since this post. I've wrote to pine64 to expose the problem, and they kindly sent a new working one to me. However, I needed to try and resolve this problem.
It appears that the problem was caused by a succession of events :
The iron was first working, but suddenly displayed a crazy, steady temperature.
It was then auto-calibrated, which gives back a normal temperature on the screen, but says that there is no tip.
After thinking that maybe the tip is broken for whatever reason, I've tried every one I had (the one that came with plus the four tips in the kit), each one of them bringing the same "tip disconnected" message.
Here is the trick : when I've started to have this crazy temperature, it was because of a dead tip. And I've recalibrated the iron with this dead tip, so every other one I tried didn't appears, because the software sees whatever resistive value beyond the threshold of a working tip. By recalibrating the iron with each other tips, I finally had it back, with the normal behavior of dead tips having the display saying "disconnected", and working ones displaying the temperature.
Hope it will help ! And that maybe a check could be added to the hardware / software ?