My Xbee is not working

Wireless & IoT
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Hi all

I think I made a mistake but and I want some help here please.

I bought 2 Xbee S2 and I was trying to connect one of them to a breadboard…

I bought some wires (male/female) and I connected them as the following

VCC pin to VCC on breadBoard

GND pin to Gnd on breadBoard

12V to BreadBoard

I did this without any adapter, just connected the wires directly, the XBee power LED flashed for 1 second and it stopped working…

I cant communicate with it using Explorer, it wont work!!!

when I connect it to the explorer the power LED flash for 1 sec and then goes off, what happened?? did I break it??

and is there any way to restore it back

thanks

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XBee Vcc is 3.3V (3.6V MAX). 12V will fry the XBee so now it is toast. Buy a new one.

Read the XBee documentation and heed the Specifications.

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hamzehhirzallah:
Hi all

I think I made a mistake but and I want some help here please.

I bought 2 Xbee S2 and I was trying to connect one of them to a breadboard…

I bought some wires (male/female) and I connected them as the following

VCC pin to VCC on breadBoard

GND pin to Gnd on breadBoard

12V to BreadBoard

I did this without any adapter, just connected the wires directly, the XBee power LED flashed for 1 second and it stopped working…

I cant communicate with it using Explorer, it wont work!!!

when I connect it to the explorer the power LED flash for 1 sec and then goes off, what happened?? did I break it??

and is there any way to restore it back

thanks

consider why you chose 12V to use?
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Donno about 12V, but in my experience I have accidently given the XBees upto 6V and they have miraculously survived.