BoE Doh!

erco

I was scratching my head for 10 minutes while attempting to breadboard a circuit on a Board of Education without a BS2 yesterday. Mainly testing the onboard FTDI adapter, those LEDs were flashing but my circuit was not working with a 9V battery attached. I checked for +5V (Vdd) at the BS2 socket (where I was connected) and only got ~0.75V... Did I burn out the regulator? No, 5V everywhere else on the BoE. Burn a trace? Couldn't find anything... Finally realized that the BS2 socket is only wired to Vin, not Vdd, and the Stamp uses its own 5V regulator. Doh!

Still making mistakes late in life. Being 39 sucks!

VonSzarvas

@erco said:
Being 39 sucks!

Yes it does !!

doggiedoc

If you're 39, that would make me about 19! LOL

frank freedman

Trying to remember being 39..... ahhhhhhh forget it.

CJMJ

I'll take you're 39 for my 63 if I can keep what I've learned since then!

erco

@"frank freedman" said:
Trying to remember being 39..... ahhhhhhh forget it.

(Integer math operations may have rounded down a decade or two...)