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Wifi works powed by USB but not PSU

Open AnAwesomePossum opened this issue 2 years ago • 11 comments

Using an m8p with cb1, connected to USB power the wifi connects and stays connected. When connected to PSU power wifi will see the networks but never connect. Ethernet when connected to PSU will drop connection ever few minutes. On FB BTT asked about this exact scenario when troubleshooting someone else's problem and said they had a solution but didn't say what it was.

AnAwesomePossum avatar Aug 23 '22 04:08 AnAwesomePossum

Yeah thats the way I had been running all of mine & one functions just fine. But the people at BTT seem to think making me wait for the stupid software will fix my issue. I am done with BTT and will spread the bad support far and wide.

shawnchr avatar Aug 23 '22 14:08 shawnchr

you aint the only one... im still struggling, only thing that works is one image with ethernet, wifi is shit... ive added caps, ive tried different images... kernels... fuck this garbage

tnap1979 avatar Aug 25 '22 00:08 tnap1979

This issue still persists in the last image: in the release notes they specified it was meant to solve wifi issues, but I noticed no differences whatsoever, at least on my board :(

ma1069 avatar Sep 02 '22 18:09 ma1069

So there's a secret squirrel image they've sent out to a few that has wifi working over PSU power. Ethernet doesn't work though and wifi seems to drop connection. I'll upload the file to a Google drive when I get home.

AnAwesomePossum avatar Sep 02 '22 18:09 AnAwesomePossum

I'm having the same problems with wifi not working with PSU. (M8P + CB1) After a lot of tests I found something interesting, if I take all the stepper driver out, the wifi connects and is stable (for 1 hour of testing). My assumption for now: When power on by PSU, everything is power at the same time and the CB1 might get power fluctuations that messes with wifi connection. I'm doing more tests for stability and soon put an oscilloscope on the power rails to verify my assumptions. I'll post the results here.

Maybe a delay in process initialization fixes this issue.

AndreOkihara avatar Sep 22 '22 14:09 AndreOkihara

I'm having the same problems with wifi not working with PSU. (M8P + CB1) After a lot of tests I found something interesting, if I take all the stepper driver out, the wifi connects and is stable (for 1 hour of testing). My assumption for now: When power on by PSU, everything is power at the same time and the CB1 might get power fluctuations that messes with wifi connection. I'm doing more tests for stability and soon put an oscilloscope on the power rails to verify my assumptions. I'll post the results here.

Maybe a delay in process initialization fixes this issue.

The problem stems from hardware fault.. The LDO regulator is not good enough.. It needs to be replaced with a torex semiconductor sot23-5 3.3v LDO 750mah or higher...

tnap1979 avatar Sep 22 '22 14:09 tnap1979

I'm having the same problems with wifi not working with PSU. (M8P + CB1) After a lot of tests I found something interesting, if I take all the stepper driver out, the wifi connects and is stable (for 1 hour of testing). My assumption for now: When power on by PSU, everything is power at the same time and the CB1 might get power fluctuations that messes with wifi connection. I'm doing more tests for stability and soon put an oscilloscope on the power rails to verify my assumptions. I'll post the results here. Maybe a delay in process initialization fixes this issue.

The problem stems from hardware fault.. The LDO regulator is not good enough.. It needs to be replaced with a torex semiconductor sot23-5 3.3v LDO 750mah or higher...

You are absolutely right, I'm just probe the CB1 3.3V rail and saw a drop to 1.4V 😞 I'm gonna try remove the sot23 and put a external 3v3 regulator to test.

AndreOkihara avatar Sep 22 '22 15:09 AndreOkihara

I'm having the same problems with wifi not working with PSU. (M8P + CB1) After a lot of tests I found something interesting, if I take all the stepper driver out, the wifi connects and is stable (for 1 hour of testing). My assumption for now: When power on by PSU, everything is power at the same time and the CB1 might get power fluctuations that messes with wifi connection. I'm doing more tests for stability and soon put an oscilloscope on the power rails to verify my assumptions. I'll post the results here. Maybe a delay in process initialization fixes this issue.

The problem stems from hardware fault.. The LDO regulator is not good enough.. It needs to be replaced with a torex semiconductor sot23-5 3.3v LDO 750mah or higher...

Do you have a part number or other recommendation for specs? I'm only finding regulators with 2% regulation and wasn't sure if that was good enough.

ADKMechETECH avatar Oct 10 '22 12:10 ADKMechETECH

The LDO regulator that's in the revised version 2.2 CB1 has an ID H63MY. Not finding it anywhere online.

unique311 avatar Nov 05 '22 00:11 unique311

The LDO regulator that's in the revised version 2.2 CB1 has an ID H63MY. Not finding it anywhere online.

https://smd.yooneed.one/

Try that site.. that's what I use to identify my smd components

tnap1979 avatar Nov 06 '22 15:11 tnap1979

The LDO regulator that's in the revised version 2.2 CB1 has an ID H63MY. Not finding it anywhere online.

H63 XC6220B331MR Torex Semiconductor SOT-25 Linear voltage regulator IC LDO, 3.3V±1%, 1A, +CE, CL

tnap1979 avatar Nov 07 '22 09:11 tnap1979