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Review on 🌀️ HiLetgo Precision BMP280 3.3 Atmospheric Pressure Sensor by Tim Airy

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Extremely inconsistent

I tried many times to get it working, at first four of the five worked fine but after several hours of data collection one showed a lot of junk information then the tooltip sent none Data more, two more did so over the next few hours. One kept puffing normally, but gets finicky when I do a lot with it. do, but the breakout is intended to eliminate the need for an additional wire to the CS pin) and will gradually heat up as the data is sampled until it stops working (but never smokes), you'll see an immediate bump between the first two readings of 10 degrees then it gradually increases from there and an odd output seems to work while I use all five wires to 1) switch to I2C mode (CS to VCC) 2) from 0x76 to 0x77 (SDO to VCC) to switch. This completely defeats the purpose of I2C as you end up having to use all six connections. So I tried SPI mode, it worked much more consistently but obviously requires you to use all wires too so you don't really gain or lose anything, but using six wires instead of four really sucks and eliminates the need a gap. t complete. Unfortunately, sensors with a heat issue continued to cause problems in SPI mode, but one sensor works fine in both modes. I have had a lot of success with HiLetgo products and was very disappointed here but I have to give them a thumbs up. An extra star for how hard they worked with me to help me resolve the issue. I will probably buy another batch from another seller who has better reviews. This error indicates that something is wrong with the SMD resistors used to control the default state of the CS pin.

Pros
  • Test, Measure & Inspect
Cons
  • Lean guide