diff --git a/docs/hardware-revisions.md b/docs/hardware-revisions.md index d846919..fd665f3 100644 --- a/docs/hardware-revisions.md +++ b/docs/hardware-revisions.md @@ -50,3 +50,27 @@ over the bus. Gen1 has no status LED either: D5 is unconnected, and the gen1 profile compiles the LED out (`RLHT_HAS_STATUS_LED`). + +## Gen1 thermocouple T- + +On gen1 the MAX6675's T- pin is not connected to ground. In all four gen1 board +files, U3 pin 2 (`/T-1`) and U4 pin 2 (`/T-2`) reach only the filter capacitor, +the ferrite bead and the thermocouple terminal (C3, FB2, J7; C6, FB4, J8). The +MAX6675 datasheet's pin description for T- reads "Alumel Lead of Type-K +Thermocouple. Should be connected to ground externally.", and under Open +Thermocouple: + +> In order to allow the operation of the open thermocouple detector, T- must +> be grounded. Make the ground connection as close to the GND pin as possible. + +The gen1 boards in use carry a hand rework for this: a solder bridge from pin 1 +(GND) to pin 2 (T-) on each MAX6675. A gen1 board without the bridge has a +floating thermocouple input. + +Gen2 (`finn_recent`) grounds T- in the layout: U3 and U4 pin 2 are on GND. The +current `hardware/` design uses MAX31855K converters, whose datasheet says the +opposite for T- ("Thermocouple Input. See Table 1. Do not connect to GND."), and +leaves it off GND. + +Gen1 thermocouples also read high as the board warms, by about 2 °C after +hours powered (#86).