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By pat_nits
#79304 Hallo Community,

I seem to hit a bump with my current project (first one with the ESP8266 chip) and would be glad if you guys could help me out

I am using a Wemos D1 Mini clone (Link).
In the final project, i would like to power the board with 5V from an external source. I tried to hook up a 5V power supply to the 5V Pin of the board (and to ground of course).

Accourding to this article (Link) I used a 10kOhm pullup resistor between GPIO 0 and the 3.3V Pin of the Board, same for GPIO 2.
Between GPIO15 and Ground is a 10kOhm pulldown resistor.

First Question: will this work? meaning, does the internal voltage regulator supply the 3,3V before the bootup?


The only result I get is a little flash of the onboard LED and then nothing. If I press reset, again a little flash and nothing afterwards.

During my time google-ing this problem, I also read, that the before mentioned PullUp/Down resistors are internally wired as well and i would not need them. Tried it without them with no luck either.

I would really appreciate your suggestions and help! :)
Patrick

ps. forgive my english, not my first language ;)

EDIT:
I found the problem!
You can power the D1 Mini just by supplying 5V to the 5V-Pin of the board, no additional pull-resistors required as they are wired internally.
My problem was, that the old phone charger i used was somehow broken. When measuring the voltage, it showed 5V with no load attached (as expected) but as soon as i connected the board the voltage dropped below 2V.

Thanks everyone who read the post and thought about solutions!
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By josmaroal
#80313 Hola amigo, gracias por tu aporte a los seguidores del ESP8266 en especial este Wemos D1 mini, también estaba en duda sobre conectar el ingreso por la patilla del wemos y vi tu final feliz ya lo hice y funciono OK, disculpa la traducción, hablo español
saludos.
Traslation:
Hello friend, thank you for your contribution to the ESP8266 supporters especially this Wemos D1 mini, I was also in doubt about the entry by the wemos pin and I saw its happy ending, I do and it worked OK, I apologize for the translation, I speak Spanish
regards