Spirit Sucks
Ok, I have given up on the Spirit USB devices, as far as I am concerned they officially suck. It looks like _another_ one has bitten the dust, and a third one is also suspect. (It's detected but will not start)
This could all be a case of bad luck, combined with Windows XP running on a s l o w Pentium I laptop...but to be honest I can't be bothered finding out.
Personally, I think it was either hot-plugging or overheating that killed them.
I am still keen on the NZ version, which has a ZyDAS chipset, seems superior to the Atmel, or at least the spirit implementation of the Atmel chip.
The only complaint I have about the NZ device is that it has some weird kind of ceramic antenna, which apparently spews RF in all directions....At least the Spirit was a proper matched dipole with a reflector...and it also had a funky coax PCB pad that could have been used for patching to an external 1/4 wave stub or similar.
But you get that on the big jobs...time to move on.
This could all be a case of bad luck, combined with Windows XP running on a s l o w Pentium I laptop...but to be honest I can't be bothered finding out.
Personally, I think it was either hot-plugging or overheating that killed them.
I am still keen on the NZ version, which has a ZyDAS chipset, seems superior to the Atmel, or at least the spirit implementation of the Atmel chip.
The only complaint I have about the NZ device is that it has some weird kind of ceramic antenna, which apparently spews RF in all directions....At least the Spirit was a proper matched dipole with a reflector...and it also had a funky coax PCB pad that could have been used for patching to an external 1/4 wave stub or similar.
But you get that on the big jobs...time to move on.
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