The
first prototype of this board was a disaster. I whipped it up in a rush
just to fill some spare space before sending the main board to print,
and while the Crunchtrack prototype came out nearly perfect, I messed up
almost everything in this very simple board.
The
goal of this board was to provide some supply filter and the CAN
transceiver; I also included 6 jumpers to allow the user to choose one
of the three standard CAN pin sets. Well, I got them all wrong. I even
swapped CAN H and CAN L in two places! So that's the two red bodge
wires. The other ugly thing is the TO92 78L05 soldered on a SOT23 space:
I designed the board to accommodate a smaller regulator, but when I
assembled it it blew up when I applied the 12V power. Turns out that you
can't find wide input linear regulators in that size, and the one I was
using had a max input of 6V.
Last mistake is the big
electrolytic cap on the upper left; of course metal can electrolytics
are too tall to be squeezed between the two boards and I've replaced it
with a tantalum one.
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