I made myself an indicator plug from an old parallel port dongle. Take a piece of printed circuit board, a 1 k resistor and a LED for each pin you want to check. Some dongles contain a circuit board ready made. This is very useful not only at boot up time, but also to check what EMC2 does, sometimes.
The longer pin of an LED is the positive one, easy to memorize since a plus sign takes more ink to draw than a minus:-)) Don't bother with cathodes and anodes. Peter > You used to be able to get indicator plugs (a bit like this, but this > is for a serial port > http://www.techzonics.com/db25-status-indicator.jpg ) > Now it is probably simpler and cheaper to put an LED with 1k series > resistor between each pin and an earth pin, go through the boot > sequence, note down the behaviour and repeat for the next pin. > You will need the LED to be the correct way round. I can never > remember which the correct way round is. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
