Apparently there is no support. I sent email to MCS Electronics in Holland
with no
response.
It is not worth the $100 savings over MikroElectronika 8051 BASIC
which is a very professionally run company. Also the IDE is much better
allowing one
to select the proper chip and set up the UART communications. That is
very important
to me as I need to send a lot of data very quickly.
Mikro do what they say they are going to do.
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This Mikro IDE is VERY comprehensive. It is going to take me a year to
learn if fully
:) The Stop Watch feature tells me exactly how long it takes to execute an
instruction. In the case of zeroing an output port it is 2.4 micro
seconds. I can now
retire my O-scope :) The BASIC command is "p0 = 0x00" Ironically about the
same as a
1 Mhz 6502 written in asm.
This is going to be a real fun toy. Another thing it does is give you an
asm listing
for every BASIC instruction or command. So much for BASIC compiler being
slower than
asm. You can look at the code and decide if you can do it better in asm.
Another nice feature is the real time terminal program in a window on the
IDE. When I
send out data I can see exactly what it is going to look like in a
terminal program
running on a tablet.
BTW Mouser is now carrying Mikro products. The top of line 103 pin ARM cpu
with clock
is only $23. The drawback from my perspective is it requires a large pc
board for an
EFI system.
Exactly the same BASIC and IDE is available for the ARM. I can port my
code at any
time to the ARM.
Paul Lamar
I also just bought an easy mx pro v7 from mikroe.com for the stellaris
ARM.
I want to experiment with the ARM to read thermocouples. They should work
for EGT readings and I have other applications.
Did you guys notice that racing beat now has P-port rotor housings on their
website?
I can now buy all the components for a P-port all aluminum two or even
three rotor engine.
Buy the way did you get my check? I see that it's not been cashed yet.
Zoltan
Old school hand epoxy bonded in. They have had them for years. They also
go in at the
wrong angle. The air has to go up ... not down. Any time you force air to
make a
right angle turn you have a loss of flow. To top it off the price is way
too high.
Check with Jeff for a better deal at the end of the first page on our web
site. They
are tig welded to the steel liner and O-ring sealed for ease of repair.
Buy new stock
RX8 or 3rd gen rotor housings and send them to Jeff for conversion. You'll
save a
bunch of money and they will work with our Teflon slide throttle. The
racing beat
p-port rotor housing will not work with our slide throtle.
http://www.racingbeat.com/RX7-1986-1992/Rotor-Intermediate-Housings/11021.html
I got the check and cashed it yesterday. Do you want it back?
It will be awhile before we do an EFI for the ARM. I am going to get some
experience
with the 8051 version first.
Paul Lamar
I am just as happy with the 8051 based EFI. Thanks for the info on the
P-ports.
I liked your solution on the 555 based tach circuit.
I wonder if one could use a magnetic pickup on the counterbalance half
circle?
It could provide two edges 180 degrees apart. Might serve both rotors, one
on the rising one on the falling edge.
Zoltan
They are not all 180 degrees apart.
I just found a bunch of cylindrical magnets I had.
They will work great on hall effect sensors.
You need 2 sensors and one magnet for my 8051 EFI boards. One for sensor each rotor.
Paul Lamar
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