ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Jul 24, 2016 4:49 am #51402 Honestly mate thank you for that link I have found loads of stuff that I haven't been able to find at a decent price, thumbs up to you

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- Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:50 pm #51431 Hi, just a quick heads up on the ESP8266-12's, I have reflowed them before without any problem but today I have assembled another eight boards and two had shorts to ground under the ESP. When I removed the ESP's it looks like the short was to one of the meny little vias on the board. I'm not sure if I was a little heavy with the solder paste, the footprint was slightly different on these boards or if I just smudged the pase as I assembled the board. Anyway I hand soldered the same ESP's back onto the boards and everything is fine. From now on though I think I'll hand solder ESP8266-12's on to the boards after they have been reflowed.

- Sun Jul 24, 2016 2:59 pm #51437 told ya, deep inside I aint no bad guy at all

- Fri Aug 05, 2016 8:33 am #52188

told ya, deep inside I aint no bad guy at all

Thanks again. I have most of the parts now so I am going to go two ways:

1. I am going to replicate that post I shared and let you know the outcome of using the Attiny and the step up regulator.

2. I am going to use an ESP12f as well.

With ESP12f are you saying that with deep sleep there would be no need for a step up, if not what do you suggest other than using the Attiny and the step up ?

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