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johnv76
 
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Defective antenna?

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Hi,
Just received a new airlift bitsy add on but noticed the metal antenna is missing on mine. All I have is the green pcb underneath. Tutorial says take care of the fragile antenna but mine has none. Nothing mentioned in production description about a design change. I presume this is a faulty item?
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Re: Defective antenna?

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Let's replace this unit. The only warning I saw was about how fragile the antenna is so it must have been lost in the assembly/shipping process.
The antenna on the new, smaller ESP32 module is very delicate! Avoid touching it and grab the add-on by the long sides to avoid smushing the antenna
https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-air ... ed-3038692

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