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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).
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