Bars occur on screen with Xdalichron firmware

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Bars occur on screen with Xdalichron firmware

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I decided to reprogram my monochron with the cool xdalichron firmware but find that I get bars across the screen at various times. Only some of the number combination's produce the bars but I didn't want to sit and watch the clock to record which numbers seem to cause the effect.
I decided to try Sevenchron and it works fine, no bars across screen so I conclude it is not my clock electronics but the xdalichron firmware. I don't understand programming enough to debug this and was hoping that someone else had experienced this and fixed it.
I really like the Xdalichron concept and would love to use it but not in its current state.

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Re: Bars occur on screen with Xdalichron firmware

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if you can show a photo of it, that would be -really- helpful

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Re: Bars occur on screen with Xdalichron firmware

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Some pictures of bars. They seem to be related to certain numbers.
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Hope someone has a solution for this.

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Re: Bars occur on screen with Xdalichron firmware

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After more observations, I have found a pattern to the screen artifacts. It only involves the 10 min numbers and anytime a :1X or :4X is in that position the screen is good. When it is :0X = 2 bars in the middle of the screen, :2X = bar on bottom, :3X = bar on lower middle and :5X = bar on top. The minute numbers, indicated by X don't matter.

I am using US 24hr time and adjusting the contrast has no effect.

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Re: Bars occur on screen with Xdalichron firmware

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ok this is good info. we will look at it!

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