BURNER ????

[Foster]

I recommend that people using the GQ-4X:
1 Do connect it to a USB hub unless powered
2 Get a power supply for it. If it is like the GQ-2X I had it is a 12V 1A supply.
my GQ-2X quit reading and burning chips until it is powered by a separate Power Supply.

[Buzz]

Ford  I'm going to word this like you are a two year old. please don't take offence.

You have a 4 gallon bucket and you need to fill it with using a 2 gallon bucket.  You must fill the 2 gallon bucket twice to completely fill the 4 gallon bucket. This is how 2 and 4 meg chips work.  You must fill a 4 meg twice with  files from a 2 meg chip.  You can not fill a 2 gallon bucket with a full 4 gallon bucket and not have something left over. ( This didn't come out the same way I'm thinking, but I think the idea is there. )  Someone   me.

Not trying to confuse you but as a example, if you had a blank 27C801 ( 8 meg) you could copy your 27C4001 files into in by doing a offset twice. ( 4 meg chip cost about 2 bucks, 8 meg about 6 bucks )

The only reason a chip is ever programmed with a offset is because the programmer (human ) didn't have the correct chip in the first place. ( Boy I can hardly wait for the responce to that statement )

Ford In a PM I made you a offer and I will make you, or anyone else the same offer in the open forum. If you ever have a need for a offset and are not sure how to do one, send me the chip and I will do the offset for you and send it back.  I'm quite sure a few other members will make the same offer. David says it takes him 15 seconds, I'm old and it took me 25 seconds.

[poppo]

The only reason a chip is ever programmed with a offset is because the programmer (human ) didn't have the correct chip in the first place. ( Boy I can hardly wait for the responce to that statement )

Well, you asked for it. 

The statement is true, but it may be by choice. I personally see no reason to 'stock' two different types of chip when one will do.

[FORDSBS]

Thanks Buzz.
Coorslight just walked me through it & I did it.
Can't wait for burner to come now so I can try it .

[coorslight115]

  Ford !!

You get an A+ today on your report card !!

[FORDSBS]

Well Coors , you get  for being a GOOD TEACHER.
Ford

[slotsx2]

Is this a good chip for Bally Mains?

http://www.buyicnow.com/fincat.php?cat=131

[coorslight115]

Is this a good chip for Bally Mains?

http://www.buyicnow.com/fincat.php?cat=131

They will work

A 27c2001 and a 27c020 are pretty much the same and will work in place of each other

Same goes for:

27c4001 and 27c040

27c1001 and 27c010

27c080 and 27c801

27c4002 and 27c4096

[slotsx2]

I think this chip mixing & matching has confused me more than anything so far........
 

[FORDSBS]

I'm getting pissed. My burner was shipped on 11/8/11 from Washington, PRIORITY MAIL.
I ordered from MCUmall Electronics Inc.
I checked tracking & it shows it went from Washington 0n 11/9/11. Tracking said it should be
delivered on 11/12/11. Nothing fast about USPS priority.
Hope it makes it on 11/15/11.

[stayouttadabunker]

LOL I usually order stuff and completely forget about it...
So, every time I open my mailbox or come home and see a package on the doorstep -
I get surprised!  

You're watching grass grow or waiting for water to boil...

[poppo]

Tracking said it should be delivered on 11/12/11.

That's the problem with priority mail. It's not guaranteed. I had a package take 2 weeks to go 500 miles.  

[stayouttadabunker]

Go with snail mail...it's not any slower and much cheaper! 

[poppo]

Go with snail mail...it's not any slower and much cheaper! 

Depends on what you are mailing. You can fit an awful lot into a flat rate box. 

[slotsx2]

USPS = USELESS, STUPID, PEOPLE, SHIPPING
One of the SB chips I ordered had a big boot print on it. Let me think......   Did they drop it and step on it abd ship it without any conern of it's condition?

ABSOLUTELY!!!
I knew when I opened it what I would fiind. An Eprom with half it's legs folded over by a BIG OLD ARMY BOOT STOMPING ON IT!  

USPS = MORONS
 

[StatFreak]

Tracking said it should be delivered on 11/12/11.

That's the problem with priority mail. It's not guaranteed. I had a package take 2 weeks to go 500 miles. 

Ah, now there's your mistake Poppo! It wasn't their speed that was the problem, it was their sense of direction.   It actually left the post office via the back door, traveled 24,400 miles (give or take a few hundred) and had a grand tour of the world before dropping dead on your doorstep.    

Stat

[poppo]

Ah, now there's your mistake Poppo! It wasn't their speed that was the problem, it was their sense of direction.  

Sort of like UPS. A package that comes to me first goes to San Antonio (30 miles East), then goes to Uvalde, (50 miles West and they practically drive by my house on the way), and then it has to go out for delivery and come the 50 miles back to me. 

[StatFreak]

Is this a good chip for Bally Mains?

http://www.buyicnow.com/fincat.php?cat=131

Given his current stock (looking at available speeds and prices), instead of buying the TI TMS27C020-12JL for $1.50/ea base price,
why not buy these instead:
http://www.buyicnow.com/fincat.php?cat=504   SST SST27SF020-70-3C-PH  for $1.45/ea base price?

Not only are they a heck of a lot faster and less expensive, they're flash chips (EEPROMs), so you won't be sitting around waiting for them to be erased.


Stat

[poppo]

....so you won't be sitting around waiting for them to be erased.

Which brings up a good point. We have all been talking about burners, but nobody has mentioned the likely need for an eraser (for UV eproms).

[FORDSBS]

This was posted by Coorslight.

Also keep in mind if you buy used chips you may/will need a UV eraser.

[poppo]

This was posted by Coorslight.

Also keep in mind if you buy used chips you may/will need a UV eraser.

Even if you buy new ones you may need/want to erase them at some point.

[slotsx2]

This isn't the right question for this topic, but what does this mean?
Am getting this on my Bally 6000
83F-0 Invalid SafeRAMâ„¢ EPROM Wrong EPROM's used for SafeRAMâ„¢ Clear.

Burned on the wrong chip?
Burned em to M27C2001

They are the leave in type.

[FORDSBS]

I use the chips & get that sometimes. I'll do another clear & it works.
But then I'm taking chips out & putting back in.

[slotsx2]

Problem is, I can't do a clear!

[FORDSBS]

Do you have a set of regular clear chips to try?