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New V1.2 boards arrived incl. footprint fail

A project log for µPower (beehive) SD logger

Let's observe an emerging beehive throughout the year 2018! (And create an logger from scratch for that purpose)

janJan 06/09/2018 at 15:180 Comments

Update 12.06.18 - pics of the new board

Not much cleaning done so far. They'll get their proper isopropanol cleaning when fully populated!

top side with 18650 cell (LG-2)
bottom side

Just soldered one of the new boards and tested one, when suddenly: smoke...

It was the MCP1703 and I thought: WTF is wrong, I checked every connection and all the footprints several times.

Microchip uses two different pinouts for their SOT-89 and SOT-223 models:

screenshot from datasheet - copyright by Microchip
And I used the wrong pinout for my landing pads... So, I have to use the SOT-89 type on my SOT-223 footprint, which will kind of work:
I just hate things like this. Anyway, SOT-89 MCP's are already ordered.
Everything else seems to work just fine!

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