Re: [Owfs-developers] Loosing Channels - help please

2015-03-04 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Jan Kandziora gmx.de> writes: > > I strongly recommend to use a thick-gauge GND wire instead of playing > with the supply voltage. > Or use three wires for GND. (You do have a spare pair of wires in your bus cable, don't you?) Frankly, if I had thought of this, the first thing I'd try to fix t

Re: [Owfs-developers] Loosing Channels - help please

2015-03-04 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 05.03.2015 um 00:59 schrieb Mick Sulley: > Volt drop on some of the cable runs. Just thought if I started with a > higher voltage there would be more left at the end:) > Before voltage drop on the 1W line gets a problem, you have a problem on the GND line. That is because when you have 1V dro

Re: [Owfs-developers] Loosing Channels - help please

2015-03-04 Thread Mick Sulley
Volt drop on some of the cable runs. Just thought if I started with a higher voltage there would be more left at the end:) I need to work through it all, probably double up on the +5v line as well to reduce the volt drop but that means some fiddly soldering on the circuit boards unless I can

Re: [Owfs-developers] Loosing Channels - help please

2015-03-04 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 05.03.2015 um 00:10 schrieb Mick Sulley: > > I see on the spec sheets for most devices it says max voltage is 5.5v, > from your experience is it possible to go above that and if so what is > the maximum? > The datasheet of DS2482-800 also says +6V is absolute maximum rating to prevent permanen

Re: [Owfs-developers] Loosing Channels - help please

2015-03-04 Thread Mick Sulley
Hi Paul, Thanks for the suggestions. Yes the Sheepwalk adapter is based on the DS2482-800. I can't see anything obvious in the logs, but I have done some more investigation and now suspect it may well be a voltage problem, so I am looking at ways to try to stabilise it. I see on the spec s

Re: [Owfs-developers] Loosing Channels - help please

2015-03-04 Thread Paul Alfille
I assume we're talking about the DS2482-800 -- the 8 channel i2c-based bus master. The fact that a reboot doesn't fix the problem takes in issue out of owfs (which should be entirely reset by a reboot) and to the hadware (which might need a power cycle to fully reset). The datasheet talks about a

[Owfs-developers] Loosing Channels - help please

2015-03-04 Thread Mick Sulley
I have had a problem probably 3 or 4 times over the last few months where I loose some channels on my 1-wire, this time channels 1, 4 and 5, which I think is the same channels as before but can't be sure. If I reboot it doesn't help, just comes up with the same missing channels, but power cycl