Defective ESP32 WROOM?

Hi Sparkfun,

We have several of the ESP32 WROOM and we found 1 that doesn’t work via USB and the charging LED is always on, despite being powered by USB-C connection. We have tried multiple computers and cables, this specific unit just doesn’t seem to want to work. Anything we can do, or do we need to RMA it?

Mike

It sounds defective; head over to www.sparkfun.com/returns and fill out the info to get an RMA started (if purchased form us, if from elsewhere contact them for similar)

Thank you kindly!

Hello Again,

I have another question to see if some of the others are defective.

2 of the boards connect via USB to the computer and are recognized. They used to work, I let one of them run overnight for testing. The second one I noticed ran slower than the first one because the output delay to monitor was longer.

Today both the first one and the second one are able to connect via USB, they are able to be programmed, but they don’t seem to execute the program. Note, that the working code did not change. It worked with no issue yesterday, but today the EP32 doesn’t seem to work. Are these also defective ESP32?

My apologies, for some reason my router didn’t see it, but i can ping it.

So the first one works… but the second one doesn’t seem to. Very strange.