nRF9160 Feather - Suggestions for next version

Any discount code possible? Mainly to compensate the shipping costs ;-).

Hi @AchimKraus

No discounts on the nRF9151 until it’s fully launched. These beta boards take a long time to assemble and test. Upshot is the tester is nearly complete.

Keep an eye out for upcoming discounts on the nRF9160 though..

On another note:

I played around with the nRF9151 Feather using nRF Connect for VSCode. Works well for those who prefer Nordic’s tools. Only big addition is to installing probe-rs or pyocd. Update to the docs are here: https://docs.circuitdojo.com/nrf9151-feather/using-vscode.html

Voxorin On the current nrf9160 Feather USB does NOT play well when powering the device over the VUSB pin.

Voxorin which version do you have again? Can you explain in what way? I removed the diode on 5V a few revisions ago.

Voxorin It would be nice if the next feather did for debugging purposes. I currently have my feathers deployed in 12V LiFePo battery powered systems with a buck converter to give me 5V for the feather and other devices.

Right now i’m powering it via the 5V pin for testing. So, it should work out in the field the same way. The only detail is whether or not it will be happy when you plug in USB.

VBUS pin is directly connected to USB in both designs now:

Voxorin I probably should’ve used the VBAT pin to power the feather, but it would be nice to add small lithium battery to act as a backup so I can continue logging power issues in the larger system.

Gotcha!