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Releases: dm5tt/MeshtasticNode_BQ25185

V1.0

27 Oct 13:09
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Only smaller changes:

  • Replace LDO with 3V3 -> 3V0. We loose 1-2dBm of TX power but gain way longer run time. Also the native low voltage protection of Meshtastic

  • Make silkscreen a bit bigger

v0.6

24 Aug 07:53
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Bigger board changes this time:

  • Lots of smaller non-functional changes reducing trace lengths to a minimum
  • Replaced the CR123A battery with a classic 18650. The market of cheap CR123A 3.7V was just too small.
  • Added a second I2C and also use proper Pull-Ups
  • Using a thermistor with long legs instead of the SMD variant. This will be needed for temperature monitoring of unprotected LiPos
  • Reduce jumpers to GPIO9 and ENABLE

Hopefully all bigger changes are done now - this one will be properly tested and then promoted to stable v1.0.0. Expect semantic versioning after this one.

v0.5

19 Aug 13:55
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v0.5 Pre-release
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This fixes a thermal issue with the TI BQ25185:

Power supply tests showed that it's getting extremely hot when working with voltages >6V and a single Via below wasn't enough to get rid of the heat.

V0.4 - Testing

18 Aug 08:46
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V0.4 - Testing Pre-release
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This PCB wasn't yet tested.

I don't expect something dramatically broken as only following changes happened:

  • Moved the 4-pin JST connectors to the upper end
  • Removed GPIO2 and GPIO8 pin headers as they are not needed for flashing and running the device
  • Improved trace width and vias for everything power related
  • Measuring VLOAD instead of VLIPO so we can see when the power path is switching to pass-through
  • Added transistors for the LEDs