ZX-WESPI - add a cheap wifi-enabled fileserver to your Zeddy!

[1024MAK]

ABS will melt if using a anything other than a slow speed to cut it. Even if you try to get a straight line, it won't be straight!

I now cut it slightly short of where I actually want the edge, then file it down.

Mark

[msknight]

ABS will melt if using a anything other than a slow speed to cut it. Even if you try to get a straight line, it won't be straight!
I now cut it slightly short of where I actually want the edge, then file it down.

Thanks. I'll keep that in the brain bank for next time.

In the mean time, after all that success I had... I'm now getting tape loading failures even with the ground and tape signals to the wespi cut.

I'm not sure where to go from here.

[Lardo Boffin]

If you have another ULA do a quick swap. ULAs can partially fail and at least that will eliminate that.

Failing that I would completely disconnect the Wespi.

[msknight]

Well, what I'm doing now is increasing the resistance between the composite and the wespi until I find a point where the tape loads and the wespi still functions.

This is still going to leave me with a picture issue on the RGBtoHDMI, but that's after I solve the loading problem first. So far, I've added another 1K and the tape has become a little more reliable and the wespi still functions.

However, the TZXduino appears to have deleted flightsimulator when I paused it mid-load... and having said that I'm having real problems with selecting files anyway, they're not in alphabetical order and if I go from Z up, I get 0. If I go from A down, I skip straight to Z... so... yeah.

[msknight]

For those interested in the cannibalism, I've got an adjustable resistor pack which is currently on 2K clipped in between the 1K of the wespi and after the 220 for the RGBtoHDMI.

[msknight]

OK - 17K ohm extra worked, bringing the total to 18,220 ohm. If I added another 1K on top of that, loading fails from wespi.

I think I'll take it down to 10K (11,220 total) and run more tests, but even adding the extra 1K seemed to improve the chances of tape loading.

[1024MAK]

My advise is to not to switch the power or 0V/ground, but to switch the signal lines, see this post

Mark

[msknight]

My advise is to not to switch the power or 0V/ground, but to switch the signal lines, see this post

I did read that, and I fully understand, but I'm trying to get this to work while using the jack as an on-off without having to utilise an extra switch.

I am getting good success with an extra 10K.

[msknight]

OK - I'm getting intermittent results.

I'm now thinking of using a stereo jack socket and wiring the middle one for the composite signal, in reverse.

[msknight]

Ok - that works.

Changing the mono socket for a stereo switching socket.

Put the composite across the middle pin.

Obviously to connect a tape you have to put in a stereo jack and wire to tip and ground... otherwise the composite will end up connected to the ground and the TZXduino doesn't like that.

It's the only way that I can think of that works, as a certainty.... without having to fit a switch.