PIM 2 DIGITAL PI MD (ELBOMBACI)

Hi Xavier

I'm sorry to hear that you had to undergo an operation to remove a cancerous growth. I hope that you have a full recovery after that ordeal and that you will be back to teach us all you know about building and troubleshooting home-built metal detectors such as the Delta Pulse 2 and PIM-2 etc. I have tried to obtain a response from Freedan3d since January (on this forum), but it seems that everyone is still on vacation (or working very hard). I stay in Cape Town (the beautiful mother city of South Africa), and I am just dying to take my upgraded Delta Pulse 2 + to the beach and do some coin- and jewelry-shooting. I have successfully upgraded the Delta Pulse 2 by replacing the PIC 16F676 by the more powerful PIC 18F252. I finally managed to get my LCD to function perfectly and it can now discriminate between gold items (non-ferrous) and ferrous junk! As I mentioned in my previous post, the reason that the LCD was not working very well was the result of using an LCD module from a different manufacturer. For example, with some of these LCD modules, the Delta Pulse Logo did not appear automatically and only garbled letters appeared on the top row of LCD screen. This situation occurs when one uses the LCD models WH1602b (Winstar), DEM16216, GDM1602A or LMB162GDC (Topway) - this was much improved without changing the software (hex file), but using a different LCD model, such as ACM1602S (American Zettler Inc), MC1602J-SYL (Everbouquet) or DV-20400 (Data Vision). I have included two pictures of my finished Delta Pulse 2 + and the next step will be to determine the sensitivity (depth) of detection for both ferrous and non-ferrous buried items.   
I am quite intrigued (and curious) why there has been no response so far to my questions regarding the availability of the hex file for the PIM-2 metal detector. I was invited by Christian to contribute to this forum and I wonder if he has also extended the same invitation to all the other members who have been associated with this forum since a few years ago. For example where is Ram, or Eugene52  (GoldDigger1950/ Cornelius), or for that matter, Japanese? Well, like I said before, maybe they are too busy to help the amateur detectorist like me.

Obrigado

Ciao

Speedy_G




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Hi friends
Thank all

 

Cordially
Nicolas

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Hi nickel_n

I went to the beach last weekend here in Cape Town with my Delta Pulse 2+ and had a fairly successful morning. I found a number of ferrous and non-ferrous coins which were accurately discriminated by my machine. It behaved in a very stable manner. I have only done a preliminary run and will be doing depth measurements later on.
I could not see all the files for the Delta Pulse 2 in the download area, maybe because I only have 8 or so posts. However, those that I could see posted by Ram on the Delta Pulse 1 & 2 and LCD are correct and they were the ones that I initially used, apart from the 18F252 LCD files which were posted by Jap. You will probably have access to his posted files since you have many more posts that I have.
As far as my 18F252 LCD hex file (not the demo) is concerned, we would need to obtain permission from our Master technician and Teacher, Elbombaci (aka Uykusuz, Sleepless & Ahmet Akgöz), who has contributed enormously to these wonderful metal detector projects and without whom these projects would not be possible for the amateur.
I explained the same thing to another poster, Jose, who PM'd me and also asked me for my hex file. The only possibility, as i see it, would be for a fair exchange. I would exchange the Delta Pulse2+ file for the PIM-2 hex files, either ver 5 or ver 6 (not the demo, though).
Sorry I cannot be of more help to you.

Thanks

Ciao

Speedy_G

 

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Hi speedy_G

Thanks for the get well wish. I wanted to quote you but I'm using my new tablet and I have not quit figured it all out yet. Concerning your LCD problem, did you ground all the un used pins? If not that coul have been your problem

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Xavier

Yes some LCD's are slower than others and it's good that you found the fault. When I have an LCD that dose not want to initialize I add a delay at the end of my code (LCD start) 10ms, but then if you don't have a problem why would you place the delay    If you can send me your file on the project I'd like to keep it as (working detector) in my detector projects file, never know that I may want to build it some day or that someone has a problem with a build.

All the best to you
Xavier

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