Red-V Thing Plus fix replacing R8 with 100 Ohm

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Hi Sparkfun,

While I found R8 on the schematic for the Red-V Thing Plus, it has been all but impossible to identify the miscreant resistor on the board (as I didn’t look at the eagle file). So pulled out my SMT multimeter and after measuring every resistor on the first-gen board and 2nd-gen board. Think I found R8, but would appreciate confirmation that this is it before attempting micro-soldering surgery [plus this post helps all the others who got the first-gen boards]…

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Btw, didn’t get the replacement resistor with the new board, but found 0603 100ohm 5% are just $0.005/each for 100.

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Hello infx-prof,

I can confirm that that is the R8 resistor that needs to be replaced with a 100 ohm resistor. I’ll communicate with our documentation team to try and make that fix more easily visible.

Thank you!

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Yep, you have the right resistor!

You might give Eagle try though, it makes finding those kind of things so much easier.

And, Eagle can be [downloaded for Free!

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