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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

[waltr]

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.

[stevech]

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?

[enggricha]

Donno about 12V, but in my experience I have accidently given the XBees upto 6V and they have miraculously survived.