Hi @jonathankampia
Yes, 7.5W will certainly brown out the 5V.
An external splice is a great way to go/try.

By chance, to rule out SW concerns, do you have a normal VOXL 2 ("classic") M0154 board and USB expansion with M0130? That M0130 design will supply 2A of VBUS on the 10-pin USB connector.

Keep us posted.
Thanks!

Hi @VictorG ,
That is unacceptable of us. I worked directly with operations to screen 100% of these units so I need to dig in and find out what happened.
So sorry and we'll get this sorted out.
FYI @Moderator

Hi @TomP
Looking pretty grim...
That specific signal is all buried at least 3-7 layers deep directly from that pad and it hits other BGA devices right in the pad.... no exposed traces, no exposed pins at all...
You'll have to find a different UART port or some other plan B.... sorry.

Hi @TomP
I'll look right now, but can you please also send me a zoom in clearer picture of that area?
I think I see other damaged parts, so I want to double check and advise what else could be impacted.

Thanks!

Hi @jonathankampia
Can you please post some pics of your setups?
I cannot tell exactly how you are using J3, and which version of VOXL 2 Mini do you have? M0104 or the new rounded corner M0204 with fixed SS lines?

Do you have a spec of the SSD you are trying to use? What other 5V peripherals are you using. We could be pulling too much current, since V2 Mini only has 900mA TOTAL 5V support so other 5V peripherals will eat into that budget.

Thanks!
Vinny

@roy-crosthwaite Can you swap GPS units with the working one and verify that it fixes the issue?

@psafi I just built voxl-px4 with the lis3mdl driver and when I run it the command fails because it fails the probe (I don't have that magnetometer) but otherwise runs normally.

@psafi And how did you load your updated build to the VOXL 2?

@psafi If you disable the px4 service (systemctl stop voxl-px4) and then start it from the command line (voxl-px4 -d) what output do you get? And if you disconnect the magnetometer from the system how does that change things? Remove the start command from voxl-px4-start and enter it after px4 starts from the command prompt to see what happens.

You can obtain Hexagon SDK 4.1.0.4 for the flight controller build environment described in this document: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/rb5-flight/rb5-flight-px4-build-docker at the ModalAI developers web site under EULA protected downloads in addition to getting it directly from Qualcomm. https://developer.modalai.com/asset/view/184