Has anyone every encountered an issue where your connections are correct for the picaxe download circuit but for some random reason the Programme Editor only detects your chip sometimes with no alteration to the setup it detcts it one minute and not the next. once it does the program works.
You have a few very long (30 second) pauses in your code. When the picaxe is “running” the pause command, it will not respond to the interrupt by the code-load-thingey. Hit reset just after hitting F5 (program) in your editor. That will kill the pause and prevent timeouts.
thanks guys it turned out to be the 30 second delays after all. i timed the yellow light blnking section and hit program during that phase and it downloaded consistently during that period. Had to do this since the picaxe 8M doesn’t have a reset.
As for the serin being grounded it is and i checked again to confirm, same for teh pins being short i had that the very first time i attempted to load but have since always pushed the socket down while downlaoding.
