Temperature sensor reporting 130C

[mforster]

Hi,

Our Temperature sensors are reporting 130C, this seems similar to the following forum post to which no resolution was posted, can you advise what can be done for this? Thanks.

This is the affected product:

Direct to Cloud IoT WiFi Temperature Humidity Sensor for MQTT

PR58-1 values jumping 20 to 130 to 20 deg C

We recently received and setup a PR58-1. Testing on the bench was good. We moved the unit and sensor into our server room. Over the weekend we found that the temp went to 130 deg C and humidity to 100% – impossible conditions in our server room. We brought the unit and sensor back into our office, and the temp/humidity are oscillating between 20 and then to 130 and then back to 20. Humidity value is doing same thing. Monitoring using MQTTExplorer right now. [sensor] Suggestions? We’…

[TravisE_NCD_Technica]

Hi,

Can you check the last photo that customer posted in the forum? Some of the early production run units of this product did not have the PWR pads solder jumpered as they should have been. Take a look at the photo here:

Can you confirm whether or not those pads are solder bridged together in your unit? If not they need to be.

[mforster]

Hi Travis, thanks for the reply,

as you can see in the image below, the pads on my board are not bridged, I’m happy to solder a link if this is what you reccomend?

Thanks,

Mark