Two of mine landed this morning with the mail. Are you using the @Charles styled low power framework on this device? I guess it is similar to what we have built with Arduino Pro-mini and RFM95 on Charles’s PCB, possibility to remove LDO’s or LED’s? I am liking the broken out pins at a glance but have not even opened the static bags yet.
I sourced some TP5000 based charger modules which are compatible with 6Vdc solar modules and are configurable for LiFeSO4. My plan was to run some devices directly from the LiFeP04 with no regulator. Even when at peak voltage these should be below 3.9Vdc which I seem to recall being the absolute max for the RFM95?
In this case it would be possible to use this without the regulator and all LED’s for single digit uA type sleep current. I have had over 14months on a single 18650 cell (LiFeS04) without the voltage changing +/- 0.1v .
Jasper Sikken has some nice solar harvesting gear on Tindie, I can see myself diverting some €€€ towards Jasper!
this board is fitted with an 14500 battery holder and these give 3.2 V , indeed NO LDO needed, So you can remove it, but…
The idea is to build this node in that solar / pir outdoor light unit, and use the components available, and that is a 3.7 v battery that, in full Sun, is charged with 4.2 v hence to much for the node.
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You can if the designer of the board put the required external pull up resistor on the RFM95 NSS pin. Without the pullup the NSS pin will be floating during programming so the RFM95 can activate the MISO pin and interfere with ISP programming.
I would add that I have had to add the resistor (temporary) to the top of the RFM98, on one board design (not mine) in order to re-program the Arduino bootloader with an ISP.