emontx2 rfm12b pads

Can someone advise if the non used pins on the RFB12b get sent to GND on the emontx2 or left floating ?

Robert Wall's picture

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dod's picture

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Hi Robert,

I ask as I did my first pcb last week based on the emontx2 design but it only seems to work if I have SPI/ISP connected at the same time as FTDI, the FTDI alone and it fails to give serial output but it still functions ok

Robert Wall's picture

Re: emontx2 rfm12b pads

As far as I can see, the unused pads on the RFM12B are, how can I put it, unused - there's no connection to them! SDI, SDO & SCK are common to both the RFM12B and the SPI/ISP header, but the FTDI only shares data with the serial/I2C header.
I haven't got a bare emonTx V2 PCB to check.

Are you saying it's really a software problem and that you need something on the SPI port (presumably to do the handshake) for you to get serial output via the FTDI - programmer - USB - Arduino IDE?

dod's picture

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I think I will do a video as it will make more sense.

 

Robert Wall's picture

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I doubt that will help - I never look at videos! I'd much prefer it in words so that I can ponder over it.

I have used an emonTx V2 without the RFM12B, as an energy diverter, so I think your problem isn't in the ATMega 328P nor any of the usual software. That gives serial output quite happily via the FTDI - programmer - USB - Arduino IDE. I've never had occasion to use the SPI/ISP port.

dod's picture

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I was wondering if the act of putting the programmer on the port caused a pin to go low/high.

hmm I cant see what I have missed, other than a gnd on the diagram on the xtal caps

pb66's picture

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Shouldn't pin 8 of the 328 also be grounded ? or is that just a diag error?

dod's picture

Re: emontx2 rfm12b pads

Well spotted and solves the problem.

Thank you both

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