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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon WestfW

V3 PCB has 2nd EEPROM at address x2 instead of x1.

Open WestfW opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

The address pins of the EEPROMs are wired such that they appear at I2C address 0x50 and 0x52, instead of 0x50 and 051 as shown in the original schematics. This is easy enough to fix in the ATmega code that handles "disks":

#define EXT_EEPROM1 0x52 // I2C EEPROM 1 address (128kB))

Or, the address pins can be rewired on the bottom layer of the board by cutting traces and adding jumpers (the PCB layout is designed to allow this to be done "relatively easily.")

WestfW avatar Feb 04 '18 22:02 WestfW

Hi It is one of my solution to change the i2c EEPROM address. pattern_cut_and_patch

Foschia avatar Mar 06 '18 21:03 Foschia

That's pretty! The extra unmasked vias (VCC and GND) by the EEPROMs were actually put there to allow them to be "easily" re-addressed, so I anticipated something like: rework But there's a certain elegance to the nice, straight, fixed-length jumpers...

Do you think it was helpful to have the "cut" spots of the traces unmasked? My theory was that having them uncovered would be "nice", but I see they got solder-plated instead of masked, so I'm not sure that worked out the way I had in mind. (at least, not for reasonably transparent soldermasks.)

WestfW avatar Mar 06 '18 23:03 WestfW