SDS100/SDS200: Quick question about the sds100

[thegmaniac]

Noticed when you turn it off and if you want to turn it right back on; you can’t.
You have to give it like 5 seconds or so after turning it off before it will turn back on.
Is this normal?
can you try with yours and lemme know please.
thank you

 

[Hit_Factor]

Yes. It's a computer, it writes to disk as it shut down. Reads it to boot up.

 

[shansmi]

same on the 200. they both write to disk on power down... saving all the current settings for next boot. no 5s though. just wait until after it writes to disk then fully shuts down (all lights and screen go off) and you can power up again.

 

[n1chu]

Think of that SD card as a hard drive on a computer. They both need time to place themselves in a shutdown mode and that takes time. Figure shutdown to take about the same amount of time as the radio does to power up. During those periods input commands are ignored.

 

[thegmaniac]

Think of that SD card as a hard drive on a computer. They both need time to place themselves in a shutdown mode and that takes time. Figure shutdown to take about the same amount of time as the radio does to power up. During those periods input commands are ignored.

Appreciate you my friend!

 

[Ubbe]

can you try with yours and lemme know please.

It comes right on again but it has that same 2 sec delay on the on/off button at power off as at power on. No 5 sec delay on a SDS100E.

/Ubbe

 

[thegmaniac]

It comes right on again but it has that same 2 sec delay on the on/off button at power off as at power on. No 5 sec delay on a SDS100E.

/Ubbe

So again do I have a broken unit with the fact that as soon as I shut it off I can’t power it right back on for at least 5 seconds.

 

[Ubbe]

So again do I have a broken unit with the fact that as soon as I shut it off I can’t power it right back on for at least 5 seconds.

If you wait 10 sec after power off does it start up then after a 2 sec press of the button?

In normal mode the keypad buttons are scanned to sense if they are pushed and for the on/off it is the display light that are controlled and if held for a longer period of time it powers off. It is probably a circuit with a capacitor that charge up when you push the button and it slowly charge up to a specific voltage until the CPU gets a wake up call on a sense pin. That capacitor could be leaky so it takes a longer time to reach the trigger voltage. Then it should always take 5 sec to power on regardless how long you wait after power off. But if only takes 2 sec after you have waited 10 sec then it is probably some firmware code that interacts and doesn't enable the wake up sense pin right away after power off.

Do you have the latest firmware loaded?

/Ubbe

 

[thegmaniac]

It’s working fine now. I wasn’t hitting the button correctly. LOL ALL THUMBS I TELL YA LOL!

 

[Hit_Factor]

It’s working fine now. I wasn’t hitting the button correctly. LOL ALL THUMBS I TELL YA LOL!

Just the first of many 'user error' you will experience. It takes a bit of skill to get these scanners going optimally. You'll get it. Use the search function on the forum, ask questions when things don't make sense.

 

[thegmaniac]

Thank you so much my friend. I appreciate you.