Swordfish

Hello is ther anyone here that lives in the US that is able to do some pic programming? I would pay of course. If so pleas Pm me and I will explain what I need. Thanks.

Charlie

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the replies. I did get a few. I have decided to try this my self. I will more than likley need the help of this forum. Thanks

Can you share anymore details about your project. My ears have perked up already.

Hi Ryan,

Well What I am trying to do is make a autoadvance for small gas engines. Like model airplane engines. Most of the Cd ignitions you get for model airplane use has this autoadvance built in and one company who is no longer in business used to sell cd ignition kits and autoadvance seperate. Well I have been in contact with this person and have manage to buy some CD HV boards and a few of the auto advance boards. I am not wanting to reproduce the autoadvance to resell I just want to make one just for the heck of it. Now the ones I have bought use a 12F pic. A 12F629 to be exact. And one version the latest uses a 16C54. Looking at the datasheet for the 16C54 there is only one 8 bit timer. So I don't know how it is done. Any ideas is appreciated. I was thinking of using a 18F1220 and 2 16 bit timers. One to measure RPM and one to create a delay for the spark curve.
any ideas are appreciated.

Looking at the datasheet for the 16C54 there is only one 8 bit timer. So I don't know how it is done.

Just guessing, but you could use a single timer for both generating the output and measuring RPM... you'd just have to do everything "by hand" and use the timer purely as a timebase for counting.

I would think an 18F1220 would make life a lot easier, even without the extra timers.

Are you thinking of using one of the existing boards or rolling your own?

HI Jerry I was going to make my own board.