Well I've had something really strange happen today that wasted a lot of time. Last night I upgraded to a later version of Plasmac before I went home. This involved making a copy of the new sim in my config folder, copying over my config files and updating the plasmac hal file with some changes to match my pinouts. Something I've done several times recently due to Phil's prolific updates!
This morning I was tidying up my workshop and I blew some compressed air into my control box to blow out the dust.
Then I went to use it.and the torch would not fire. So I checked physical wiring becasue of my clean up and it seemed OK so I check in HALshow to see the plasmac component torch on signal was properly configured and working. The component signal fired as per normal but the physical 7i76e pin did not light up even though halshow showed that they were connected! Assuming I'd broken something I changed HAL to point to a different spare pin. Still not working. SO I wondered then if the TB6 output pins were fried so I moved to another spare output on TB5 and still nothing happened.
So in desperation I tried yesterdays's config and it worked Then I got half way through writing this and it dawned on me, the pin could not be connected to a signal. And sure enough, that was the fault. I had commented out one line too many! so the moral of the story is to check everything works straight after you change your config while everything is fresh in your mind, not the next day!
Anyway for a reward for reading this far, here is a demo of the auto height control in plasmac!
