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Adafruit 1400

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Hi, I am trying to get a tilt switch and an Adafruit 1400 push button to start an ESP8266 board. After 2 minutes, one of the digital pins will go high and turn off the board. The Adafruit 1400 is potted in resin to make a kind of dongle thing that you invert to activate the tilt switch.

The dongle thing and Adafruit 1400 work fine on their own, the LED comes on and I get 6.4 V between the output of the 1400 & ground. When the output wire and the off wire are connected to the ESP 8266 board it stops working. There is a schematic of the circuit uploaded.

Any ideas?
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Re: Adafruit 1400

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Does the circuit work with the Push-Button Power Switch's output connected to power on the ESP8266 board, but no connection to the PBPS's OFF pin?

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Thanks for your question. No, the Adafruit 1400 stops working if either the green or yellow wires are connected.

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Post a photo of the actual hardware please. 800x600 images usually work best.

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I am not sure that the photos will help but they are uploaded. The schematic is much clearer. 1 is the Adafruit 1400 potted in resin, 2 is the ESP8266, battery etc.
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Re: Adafruit 1400

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I don't see any obvious source of problems, but the connections are hard to follow.

The best suggestion I have is to check the voltage on the lines that connect to the Push-Button Power Switch to make sure they carry the correct voltage.

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