Hmmm, mine still not arrived. Ordered sept 28th…
price went up … I will test current consumption today… curious
Banggood… aaaaargh I’m not happy at all about their service.
I am still having a discussion about a product I ordered in August, and never received.
Yesterday they offered me a half what I paid, but the package was insured !
Dutch post nl didn’t deliver to me and for some idiot reason they said they sended it back to China.
Bangood stated ’ we’ll wait for the package , but me, as a customer, have no part in this, I want a FULL refund because a] package was insured and b] product was never delivered.
In short… hope your lock will arrive soon 
Lesson learned… NEVER buy expensive equipment through Banggood … I have better experiences with E bay and Ali, much better service when something goes wrong !
*update- * must be reading here too… this morning ‘a manager’ offered a full refund for products I never received … after 3 months… thank you Banggood 
- update 2 - oh yesss
Downlink is coming, don’t forget to reverse your IQ polarity so that the packet knows which way to go
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it’s my TTN birthday today… time flies and now … PARTY !
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lesson learned from the past, before wiring up everything, test individual ‘china’ modules.
here the 3231 RTC… is it still working ? and what about the coin cell voltage ect.
- A disadvantage of those black-yellow boards is that the 32Khz pin is not exposed.
- It is easy to make the board yourself (I prefer the smaller version of the DS3231 IC):
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most of them, thats true
THIS one , mini RTC pro , has that pin exposed and a battery backup… very important for me
You get the cake…I’ll bring the beers! 
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Just realised Neil @ Multitech had kindly shipped the LTE enabled version - MTCAP-L4E1…excellent!
Have got a couple of spare Data SIM’s here…
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guess what I will be doing tomorrow! 
Back to N.West later in the week and have the perfect site lined up to use it if I can arrange short notice access. Warrington Community should have a new GW online by the weekend…
that depends on the beer quantity … probably you only open the package 
what’s your favorite RTC library ?
This one because I wrote it. It is not for Arduino… 
Did you know the IC also has a temperature sensor in it. It is accurate enough to measure the temperature inside a project box.
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yes I know… I used it sometimes tnx
the 1200 lipo’s am looking to use are only 56x28x9 so plenty of space…the 800’s & 900’s even smaller…
waiting for the GPS module