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board 02 mistakes

  • MAX232 VCC not connected. hand solder to VCC5.
  • TXMUX VSS and MAX232 capacitor GNDs not connected. hand solder to GND.
  • Too much voltage drop across AVCC isolation resistor. short.
  • Omit R29, substitute R26 100k instead of 50k (or, R25 to 25k)
  • AD5220 should have higher resistance
  • Make R10 smaller
  • Remove JTAG port, use a bootloader instead.
  • Increase sonar TX power by a factor of 2. I didn't realize why I put in R26 in until now: replace it with a tuned inductor to make the transmitter resonant. Apparently this does not work. I think the problem is that the piezo transducers are not particularly efficient capacitors. If a real capacitor is put in parallel with the transmitter and the inductor value is readjusted it should work but at this point I am more inclined to copy the tried-and-true circuit from Crunch.
More to come, unfortunately.

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