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Hello all,

Can someone point out some good tips how to determine the cause why lots of buttons don't respond on the CS. I attached a file where i marked the buttons that don't work.

Actions taken:

- Checked the CS and Base for faulty soldering --> Did not found anything

- Checked on the Base the resistor networks --> Replaced 1 resistor network but did not help.

- Checked all cables and beeped for connection from CS to Base --> All OK.

- Measured some voltages and resistances of faulty buttons and compared with working buttons --> Nothing found

I would love to see some shematic that shows me if i push a button where the exact signal runs to. Its hard to rule out things step by step to find the cause of the problem this way. Anyone got some more tips what i can check?

Grtz

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Hiya,

Just a shot in the dark.......on the lowest three tactile switches,the right ones' diode is supposed to be the opposite way round to all the others...........nearly caught me out when I built mine.

I also had issues with the mainboard to csboard connections.....might be worth checking again?

cheers

Paul

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- checked all diodes on CS --> all OK

- Checked wiring again --> all OK

Also did some looking myself:

- The button labled MODE (filter section) is not working so i measured the behaviour of it. I measured the behaviour on the CS and followed the communication between this button and the connection at the 165. I compared this to a button that has no problem. I expected to see different behaviour but it was exactly the same, measured voltage. I repeated this with another button that was not working also that behaviour was the same as the working button. :wacko:

Now i wonder that it maybe possible the problems are on the base board instead of the CS. Is this possible? And any other tips?

grtz

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Yes, it can also be on the baseboard - I had a problem with malfunctioning switches and leds on the seq v4 lite yesterday and was sure it was due to a problem on the cs -

but no, it was a bad solder point on the core board. First time it happened to me, the solder point looked perfectly good, even under a magnifying glass!

Just continue to trace on the baseboard, until you see different behaviour to a working switch - somewhere there must be the problem.

Greets and good luck!

Peter

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Still haven't found a cause for this problem. I checke the following:

- Measured at the 165's side if all signals from the wiring came in on the correct inputs --> No problem found pinch.png

- Voltage measured not pressed arround 5.11 volt when button is pressed voltage drops to about 4.56 volt this happens to both working buttons and not working buttons. This happens at the button itself but also on connection of the 165 on the base board. Looks like everything is OK.

- I can't measure the 595's direclty because of the transistors.

So if i understand correct:

595's supply the voltage needed for operation when button is pressed 165's see voltage change on a input thus meaning they get a pulse. We got 8 inputs depending on what button is pressed the 165's translate to a bit for instance: 10110110 this is sended to the PIC and then the pic responds to it by sending the correct voltage to leds and send readout to LCD and the correct information to the SID. Correct me if i'm wrong.

So basicly when i send the following input 10110110 (this is OK at the CS<->165's) to the PIC it then has to send out information packages to different components (LCD,SID,595's) what if the information to the SID is obstructed could it be possible that the other information is not communicated back? Thus resulted in not working buttons, no read out to LCD and no change to the Sound generated?

I'm running out of ideas on this problem. cry.png

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Hi Dreamer,

Based on the symptom set my first guess would be to take a close look at the 165 at U20 and all associated components..... an easy test for the chip would be to swap U20 with any other 165 to see if the symptoms change.

I have seen wrong polarity on the R38 and R39 resistor networks cause similar issues, as well as using 5 pin resistor networks -and- leaving out R57/R58 (these are pull ups for the RC and SC serial lines on the shift register chain).

So everything besides these buttons works as expected?

Best regards

Tim

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There is a wiring diagram in the wiki pages, scroll down to "Control Surface Wiring" and note the errors in my diagram (was too lazy to fix this at the time, sorry).

Measuring voltages is probably hard to do because the switches are in a 8x8 matrix, so the voltage at the 75HC165 input is going to be either 5V for unpressed switches or ~1V for pressed switches, but only for 1 ms in every 8ms (guessing at the actual duration, could be 0.5ms every 4ms. It's 1/8 duty cycle though).

Since I have the PCB layout and can highlight the connected tracks, I can see that some of the the non-working switches have common tracks. So it would be more likely that the cause is due to something wrong with that track (short, break, etc). I've uploaded some annotations to your picture, showing which switches are connected... the "input" side of the switch, with the input going into the 74HC165. It can't be coincidence that ALL switches on those common tracks don't work... so it's either something wrong with the cable or the IC pads or something at JD5...

It doesn't explain some of the faulty switches, they must be a separate issue.

I can't be certain but if you think the LEDs and the other switches are working, then the "current sinks" for the LED and switch matrices must be OK.

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Thanks for youre responses.

@wiba: Attached 2 pictures how i measured. I followed the buttons wiba marked blue.

I only measured for connection (beep, or no beep) for now. Measured as close as possible on the button on one side and on the other side on the connection of the input of the 165 on JD5. This is in the not pressed state i hear beep. Then i pressed in the switch and measured the other pins of the switch and also beep is heard. :shocked: This is repeated for all the buttons you marked blue. All beep the same.

@smashtv: I allready swapped the 165's and nothing changes. you mentioned the r57 r58 these are only needed when you have 5 pin resistor network right? I use 6 pins resistor network. How can i best measure the resistor network? Cause it should be 10k but probally due to bad measuring i sometimes measure 20k.

Except the buttons i mentioned it works great, not tried the all LED application though. but thats worries for later first i want these switches to work.

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@smashtv: I allready swapped the 165's and nothing changes. you mentioned the r57 r58 these are only needed when you have 5 pin resistor network right?

Correct. The 165 inputs only use 8 pull up resistors per chip, leaving two spare resistors when using 6 pin networks.

Since 6 pin networks are often easier to find, adding an extra pad so they can fit maximizes compatibility with available parts. Using the spare resistor in the array for the SC/RC serial line pull up is a convenient bonus.

I use 6 pins resistor network. How can i best measure the resistor network? Cause it should be 10k but probally due to bad measuring i sometimes measure 20k.
This makes me wonder about the networks.... there are several types, 'common/bussed' and 'isolated' are the most common:

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6582 (and all past MIDIbox designs) require the 'common' type. 'isolated' will not work.... Is there any chance yours are the wrong type?

Best regards

Tim

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hmm. How can i recognize this. The resistor network has SIL in its name. Could mean isolated. I did some measurements. Measured pin 1+2 = 10k measured pin 3+4 = 20k. But when i measure pin 1+3 = 10k also pin 1+4 = 10k also pin 1+5 = 10k and 1+6 = 10k.

So could the resistor network be fault?

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You may have continuity along all the pads connecting the switches with "blue dots" - this just means your soldering is good and the switches all work. The issue can still be a short between ANY pad along those tracks and something else.

Perhaps you should desolder the wires going into JD1-JD5 and use a wire to touch pins on JD5 and pins on JD8 at the same time, to simulate switch presses.

Observe which ones work or not while MB-SID is running.

This might be tedious and boring but you must discover somehow whether the problems are on the CS PCB or on the base PCB.

Or at least know for sure that the base PCB and the 74HC165 are all working as expected.

Perhaps it's easier to desolder the wires from the CS PCB first, and have them poke out the bottom, so you can test them while the case is closed... i.e. you probably still want the LEDs to work so you can see the effects of simulating button presses.

You could perhaps download some of the other troubleshooting apps (or simple apps) that use DIN modules and test just the inputs of the 74HC165... those apps will not use a switch matrix so you should bridge pins/pads to ground, not to the pins of JD8.

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I had the problem a couple of times that the IC sockets are broken. There was no connection between IC and board and after (destroying,) desoldering and replacing the IC socket the error was solved. Measure connection from IC to joint at PCB. This shouldn't happen but it obviously does.

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  • 3 years later...

So after this i gave up on the mb6582. But now after a few years i have gained back the interest for getting things done. Also will upgrade my work area with better light and better tools to be able to troubleshoot better. But also decided to solder my 2nd mb6582 just to be able to troubleshoot hopefully even better. So if someone still is interested to input ideas on the problem i have,  youre very welcome :D

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