ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sat Oct 10, 2015 8:48 am #31021

One last question: why do you put a resistor between CHIP_PD and VCC ? For the deepsleep function I linked GPIO16 and RST, do I have to also add a resistor?

Without that resistor, when you close the switch you are short-circuiting your power supply.

- Tue Oct 27, 2015 8:26 pm #32421 Cool. Is the system consistently waking up from deep sleep? I have seen many reports of the chip eventually going zombie after a few wake ups.