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- Sat Feb 20, 2016 9:43 am #41505 Thank you for your response (and everybody's help!), yes it is very helpful.

Clearly my FTDI board has to be the culprit. Unfortunately most of the units I find are in china and take 2 months to get. How about this one: http://r.ebay.com/qnTnOw. It at least claims to be the CH340G.

I'm aware of the flash vs serial.begin difference. My arduino IDE will actually output 74880 so I can view the bootcode errors. That's how I got the errors I listed earlier.

I have 1.6.7 arduino IDE.. I don't know if that contributes to issues? I am using version 2.0 of the board package.

- Sat Feb 20, 2016 12:12 pm #41521 I'm using this, and it works well for me so far http://www.microcenter.com/product/432350/FTDI_Adapter_USB_Controller

- Sat Feb 20, 2016 5:33 pm #41549 Trent, are you in the UK by any chance? I know a guy who has some of the FTDI that I use on EBAY.

Regarding versions esp/Arduino V 2.0 is only stated to be stable on version 1.6.5 as has been said many times so to be certain you are not introducing errors I would use 1.6.5 until you get reliable downloads.

- Sat Feb 20, 2016 5:47 pm #41551 OK, I'll try that. No, I'm in the US.

Thanks!