Did I fry my Xbee

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Did I fry my Xbee

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Last night I assembled my xbee adapter kit. It went together easy enough. I hooked up one of my two xbees played around with hyperterminal (successfully) and updated the firm ware with X-CTU. I then changed the baud rate to 19200, hit write and the write failed and the green status LED went off. I couldn't get anything to admit there was an xbee in the socket. I then tried the other xbee, it worked fine. I updated the firmware but have been afraid to set the baud rate. I didn't power it down between updating the firmware and trying to change the baud rate. Did I fry my xbee? Thanks for any help you all can offer.

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Re: Did I fry my Xbee

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huh its unlikely its -damaged-
did you try connecting at either 9600 or 19200?

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Re: Did I fry my Xbee

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Yeah I tried both. It says it is "unable to communcate with modem" when I hit the test/query button for both settings. The weird thing is that the green "ASC" light doesn't come on when I plug the board into my pc. When I use the "working Xbee" it starts blinking immediately. My wife thinks I just fry things by looking at them.

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Re: Did I fry my Xbee

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try 'resetting' it by touching a wire to RST and ground (they're next to each other)

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Re: Did I fry my Xbee

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No dice. Would it be weird if I mailed it to you? I bought it a couple weeks back, if it can be made right I'll pay to mail it back. Its worth the dollar to let an expert give it a look rather than get a new one.

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Re: Did I fry my Xbee

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sorry, we dont do returns for products that have been used. the xbee's are sensitive to 5v and static electricity. try using a grounding mat? at least you've got one good one!

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