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<blockquote data-quote="ArloG" data-source="post: 1146590" data-attributes="member: 418555">Skill? Fairly good. I perform board level repairs and restore vintage audio equipment, turntables, etc.I have what it takes to do SMD work, microscope. All of those pieces of equipment.I do have an ASC-1. Since they have been discontinued and the only parts are left at Titanium. Hopefully Brian can assist me.I've been troubleshooting it. No schematics, voltage points, waveforms available so R.E. is my only option. So far all components test good.I've pulled the relays and loaded them with 5 amps both NO &amp; NC. Test good. Still I get a motor error or motor short. But the motor is good. Runs fine on external DC and pulls nomimal current. I'm stumped and had to give it a rest.Since it's based on an NXP mcu I contacted NXP for info. There are tons of compatible developer boards on eBay. The road block is the cost of Codewrrior and my learning curve. So Arduino and pi were my next thoughts. About the only thing I've really used my Mega for is the serial port to flash routers, HDD, GPU firmware and debug using the serial console.Actually when I asked this same subject on sat guys after googling my rear end off. One of the fellows there immediately sent me here. A big, big sigh of relief. I have used pcbway here and there occasionally.I just really was psyched to see you have taken the time to develop a unit like you have.Haha. Yeah. I'd like to build it all. Sometimes the expense is well worth the satisfaction of learning new things.Thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ArloG, post: 1146590, member: 418555"] Skill? Fairly good. I perform board level repairs and restore vintage audio equipment, turntables, etc. I have what it takes to do SMD work, microscope. All of those pieces of equipment. I do have an ASC-1. Since they have been discontinued and the only parts are left at Titanium. Hopefully Brian can assist me. I've been troubleshooting it. No schematics, voltage points, waveforms available so R.E. is my only option. So far all components test good. I've pulled the relays and loaded them with 5 amps both NO & NC. Test good. Still I get a motor error or motor short. But the motor is good. Runs fine on external DC and pulls nomimal current. I'm stumped and had to give it a rest. Since it's based on an NXP mcu I contacted NXP for info. There are tons of compatible developer boards on eBay. The road block is the cost of Codewrrior and my learning curve. So Arduino and pi were my next thoughts. About the only thing I've really used my Mega for is the serial port to flash routers, HDD, GPU firmware and debug using the serial console. Actually when I asked this same subject on sat guys after googling my rear end off. One of the fellows there immediately sent me here. A big, big sigh of relief. I have used pcbway here and there occasionally. I just really was psyched to see you have taken the time to develop a unit like you have. Haha. Yeah. I'd like to build it all. Sometimes the expense is well worth the satisfaction of learning new things. Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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