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daplatapus 06-09-2013 05:26 PM

Well, I fired up my Jarduino for the first time with everything hooked up. All the new cables, temp sensor for water and heatsink fans, etc. So far it looks like all the LED circuits are working as planned, the temp sensors are working, but I can't get the heatsink fans to run. Hmmm, no idea why. According to the drawing I have for the fan circuit, it says to use PWM pin 45 on the Arduino and pin 48 for the fan enable, but I went through the sketch and I think it's actually PWM pin 44 and 47 for the enable. So I used those but nothing...
Temp is holding steady at 27.5 C. I turned down the temp value so the fan should have come on at 20C. If there's a PWM signal from the arduino, where and what would I measure in the circuit?

daplatapus 06-09-2013 06:06 PM

Well as the other colours are coming on the heatsink temp has climbed to 34.5C. Gonna turn this off until I can get 'er figured out

reefme 06-09-2013 07:42 PM

Want to help, but I don't have a copy of it.

daplatapus 06-09-2013 10:29 PM

Sorry, page 17 post 162 of this thread.

reefme 06-09-2013 10:37 PM

Ya, but you have to look into the sketch to make sure it's assign to that pin.

daplatapus 06-09-2013 11:08 PM

Oh, that, lol, ya I did. I have a feeling it's not a sketch related problem.
The lines I found in the sketch that I think do what I'm wanting are:
const int HoodFansPWM = 44; //PWM Hood Heatsink Fan (code added so frequency = 25kHz)
const int HoodFansTranzPin = 47; //Hood Heatsink Fan on/off

This would leave me believe the arduino pins would be 44 and 47, not 45 and 48 as per the diagram previously referred to.

I have a feeling it's a wiring issue. That's why I was hoping to figure out if I should be able to read certain V's at specific places to be able to troubleshoot the circuit.

daplatapus 06-11-2013 03:04 AM

Woohoo, got the fans working!

StirCrazy 06-11-2013 04:43 AM

get some potting compound (clear) and fill in the holl around your heat sensor


Steve

daplatapus 06-12-2013 09:10 PM

Cool, thanks for the suggestion.
I've fired everything up and leaving it go for the day. I tried adjusting the fan on temps and the fans shut off even though the heatsink was warmer than the set temp. Turned the set temp back down and they come on again. They also seem to be going fairly slow.. not sure if there's a setting in the sketch that can speed them up or what?

daplatapus 06-13-2013 12:21 AM

Hmmm, unplugged the PWM fan wire and the fans ramped up to where I think they should be. Anyone hazard a guess what might be wrong? Where I should start looking?


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