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MAX3232 problems?

2004-01-07 by David Willmore

I finally have one of Leon's lpc210x proto boards assembled.
The problem is the MAX3232 runs warm and seems to be drawing
150mA or so--it varies a bit.

The lpc2106 runs at ambient and has detectable 10MHz on its
clock pins.  Removing the MAX3232 from the board causes it
to use very little current ~10mAh, so I'm assuming the CPU
is okay.  

Is there some common failure mode these things experience?
I'm pretty sure there was no reverse voltage, etc.  Could
a poorly connected cap do this?

I *really* want to talk to this thing, but if the serial
interface won't work....

Cheers,
David

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