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2024-04-08 4:13 am
Howdy all,
After figuring out that a filter on 'drone' was deleting all emails from this forum and fixing it, I'm happy to finally have arrived!
I live in Perth, Western Australia and I'm here to meet similar people and soak up all your knowledge. 🙂
I recently reignited my interest in electronics (during the recent pandemic) after about 28 years had passed since I designed a variable power supply for my senior high-school physics assignment. I would eventually like to create a modern version of this power supply, so my interests here will be spread across power electronics, sensing, MCU software development and more. I am also keenly interested in solar power and harnessing that to make some fun projects.
For now, I have begun to make smaller projects to bring me up to speed, like a 12v buffer for my 'Android Auto' screen, which loses Bluetooth connectivity to my phone when the Auto Stop-Start on my car operates, a solar charged door bell button which lights after dark and uses 433MHz to trigger MP3 playback on an internal Arduino controlled speaker, and a few other things.
Looking forward to getting to know you all and building up my skills over time.
As I live in Perth, I have named myself the Perth Electronics Hobbyist, or Perelho for short.
Cheers,
Collin
2024-04-08 10:12 am
@perelho Welcome to the forum. As far as the BT dropping out during auto-start/stop, that sounds like a bug. My understanding is that shouldn't happen but I am certainly no expert.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
My personal scorecard is now 1 PC hardware fix (circa 1982), 1 open source fix (at age 82), and 2 zero day bugs in a major OS.
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2024-04-08 4:55 pm
Thanks Ron. The issue is that it's powered from the 12 Aux socket which turns off during re-start. This seems to leave the BT in a bad state. My solution is to keep it powered on during these restarts (I'm aiming for 3 seconds)
My first attempt using 2x 22000uF caps results in about 0.5 run time. About to switch it up with a 16v 1.6F super cap bank. Can't wait for it to arrive.
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