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- Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:06 am #91000 I'm using an ESP-12 with on-board AC relay as a thermostatic controller. Power requirement is specified as 7-30v.
I have two of these. One has a 6v power supply and works fine; the other has 12v and exhibits this problem.
It works correctly only when I have a serial/USB line connected. With the line connected, it works perfectly; without it, it does "strange things". Sorry I can't be more specific, but of course I have no serial comms available for debugging. It seems to be undergoing some sort of partial reset; losing some internal data, but not going right back to setup.
When I changed to a 6v power supply, the problem went away.
I have a vague recollection of a pin needing pull-up/down (CTS maybe?) when the serial pins are not connected, but I can't find that reference now.
I'm using GPIO13 for a OneWire DS temperature sensor.
An obvious solution is to use a 6v power supply, but for one thing I'm curious as to what might be going on, and for another I would prefer to provide the voltage level specified by the manufacturer.

- Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:10 pm #91001 I'm getting mixed signals here.

• An ESP-12 with relay on board?
  This is an ESP-12:
  
  ESP-12.jpg
  
  Please show us the actual board you're using and how (schematic?) you're using it
• A power requirement of 7-30V?
  The ESP8266 (in any form) uses 3.3V±10%, nothing more, nothing less
• You can't describe what "Strange things" it's doing, but you're also not able to tell what it has to be doing?
  Please include the sketch: it often says more than a thousand words

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Assumption is the mother of all f*ckups. At least: that's what I'm assuming.

- Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:39 pm #91006 Apologies for my lack of clarity. It's a ready-made module that I bought, with an ESP-12F and an AC relay on it. Here's an ebay link to one such: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DC-7-30V-ESP ... 2471613182
I was hoping that someone would suggest some interference between serial I/O and GPIO13 that is somehow sensitive to supply voltage, and that a pull-up/pull-down somewhere would fix it, but if so, I guess it's to do with my specific module rather than ESP8266 in general.
I don't think that the detail of the sketch would help much; as I said, it all runs fine with the serial I/O connected or with a 6v power supply. And I don't want to waste anyone's time here, since I do have it working correctly on 6v.
I'm happy to post the sketch if anyone's particularly interested, but we're probably at a dead end.
Thanks QuickFix for the response.