[OT:] Pic washing machine project by At van Wijk .

Hello guys, For the interested (future) experimenters on washing machines (like myself maybe) it might be good to find out what actions are involved to get the overall control idea. Will someone correct and add, to the next primitive setup: (?) Greetings, At v.W. out0 sound beep (alarm) out1 motor spin direction out2 motor speed out3 motor on/off out4 heater element on/off out5 water inlet valve on/off out6 water outlet pump on/off in0 start button in1 heater temp sensor in2 water level sensor in3 centrifuge yes/no in4 long/ short wash in5 watertemp set1 in6 watertemp set2 var1 tflag ; max temp reached var2 wflag ; max waterlevel reached Start button sensed: read several selection switches (or get rs232 info) not used yet Wash: gosub rinse gosub change_water gosub rinse gosub centrifuge end Rinse: clear tflag and wflag gosub startup; gosub spin return Startup: gosub water-inlet gosub water-temp gosub spin-once if wflag and tflag are set then return else goto startup Water-inlet : check for max waterlevel if max then close watervalve; set wfag else open watervalve return Water-temp: if max then switch heater off; set tflag else switch heater on return Spin-once: for time = 1 cycle spin right; wait 1 sec; spin left return Spin: do spin right during 2 min; wait 10 sec spin left during 2 min; wait 10 sec loop during 30 min return Change_water: switch heater off close waterinlet start pump for water outlet until water_is_gone return Centrifuge: gosub change-water if no wool selected then centrifuge for x minutes else return return > I had a washing machine that did 6 (six!) quick rinse-spin cycles, .. > ../ their machine just does the usual not-very-effective rinse. > How did you find out how to "drive" the machine? > Did you have documentation on its control system? -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email RemoveMElistservspamBeGonemitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body