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Old 29th Nov 2022, 9:39 pm   #38
SiriusHardware
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Hmm, it's unfortunate that this situation (with low grade clones) has arisen but it means that your / our / anyone's circuit should anticipate an end user almost certainly trying to use one of those clones at some point and dodge that bullet by not trying to back power the Arduino.

If you do it will only lead to people complaining that 'your project blew my Arduino up'. You saying that it happened because their Arduino wasn't a real one won't carry any weight because it will have worked perfectly in every other Arduino application they used it in prior to that. You can see where I'm coming from.

Therefore, if there is a solution which will work equally well for both real and clone Arduinos, we should really try to do it that way.
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