Help…I just finished soldering all the components onto my Reflow Toaster v02 board. Upon powering it up, there’s no “Sparkfun” logo that shows up on the LCD and the status LED doesn’t flash. Is this normal? I double-checked every solder joint and there’s no short anywhere.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Why are you even expecting a logo to show up? There is some sample code on the product page, but you have to load it first.The Reflow Toaster Controller product page:
Runs on a PIC 16F88 with boot loader pre-loaded (no programmer required). No system code is provided. We get you the hardware, you get the thrill of creating the control system yourself!
I was reading the Sparkfun Website and Kit Ryan’s tutorial mentioned the following:
"Before loading OvenFlow, power-up the Controller with the boot loader
from SparkFun still in the PIC 16F88 memory (that’s the way it’s shipped). If the LED flashes and the LCD readout has their logo on it, then you’ve probably done a good construction job."
which is why I thought the logo should appear.
Regards,
Ron.