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By Copper Dog
#182016
Hi all, hate for my first post on the forum to be negative but has anyone else ordered a boot loaded MCU from SparFun but received a bare one? I ordered a 328P a while back and it simply wouldn't take an upload. After much frustration I eventually ran a chip detector sketch on it to learn it was bare. In addition the chip pulls 90mA just sitting there compared to a chip out of a Uno that draws 20mA with the same sketch. Whats up with that ? I configured it to run an internal oscillator, killed the ADC and SPI and it still sucks 90mA doing nothing in a bare minimum circuit. It's pretty much useless.

Yeah I figured it out and yes it didn't cost much but was this the only chip that went out this way?
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By Ross Robotics
#182055
Sounds like an ESD issue.. I've never heard of that issue until now.
By Copper Dog
#182107
Hmm, hadn't considered that. I'm pretty careful but that doesn't mean it didn't get zapped or even zapped before it got to me. You may be right.