having some issues with my 433mhz modues. yes they are the cheap ones. however I have had similar modules working.
After some playing around I did some google searches and all the mx-rm-5v modules I see have a big bulky resistor on top and mine don't.
However i cant figure out which value it is supposed to have so i can solder my own on there.
looking at this picture i woul say brown black gold silver
the thing is when i look up schematics of this receier module i can not find any resistor in there confirming this value. I must confess that reading those is not my strongest point.
Anybody that has one of these laying around and would be able to measure it's value for me?
welll, that shows my knowledge level.... big shame here......
will have to google a bit more and do some research to figure out what it's doing there and if missing it is a big problem.
All of my 3 modules are missing this piece so hard to believe it's an error. However i only have 4 centimeters of reach before i loose signal. these can do better i know!
I also have a set of the ones that were in the picture, and i actually think it's silver-gold-blue-brown, but if it's an inductor it is actually used as attenuation of a signal (maybe for setting the band) it shouldn't be missing i would open a dispute regardless. you could even try just shorting it out (maybe not the best of ideas, but it is actually shorted out to DC, just cutting out some part of AC)
Looks like there are two versions. I’ve found examples online without the inductor link
Is it possible the antenna is not correct? Or power? Is there noise on the power? I’m guessing it should be able to receive much further even if it’s poorly made.
If you look closely i think you will see that they have replaced then thru hole inductor with a smd one, google smd inductor and look at the small dark gray component in the middle of where the other inductor was. and yes these suck, with a good antenna and the right orientation i get maybe 2 meters range and then i catch 1 in 5 messages...
The transmitter are OK thou, but look for another receiver.
Best of luck.
Well the second module does give me about 30 meters. Will try the dipole antenna. Where do I solder this ground antenna? Any ground or a specific "antenna" ground?
Bringamosa:
Well the second module does give me about 30 meters. Will try the dipole antenna. Where do I solder this ground antenna? Any ground or a specific "antenna" ground?
Generally, the closest ground you can find to the antenna terminal.
Thanks for the responses. Got about 50 meters range now. Missing just 5 more meters. Oh well, at least I got it working and I learned a lot again. Happy new year to you all!
Those receivers are only slightly worse without the inductor (that is, without the inductor, they don't work. With the inductor, they barely work). Those abundant green receivers are absolute garbage.
Search ebay/etc for the RXB12 recevers. Little yellow circuit board with one black chip on it, about a buck a pop shipped from china. They are pin compatible, and in my testing got around 20x the range at Vcc=5v, worked about as well at 3.3v as they did at 5 (whereas the green ones had a range on the order of a few feet at 3.3v), and didn't get stuck in bad states when receiving at really short ranges like the green ones can. Anything with a SYN470 or SYN480 is comparable, but the RXB12 is cheap, abundant, and pin-compatible. (there's the RXB14 which I often use - it's smaller, but eliminates one of the redundant data pins, so you can't plug it into a socket you built for the green ones or RXB12.
There's a red one that looks almost identical, but the chip is a knockoff that sucks (and they're not sold as RXB12), don't buy those.
As an aside, I have made my own SYN470-based receivers - performance was slightly worse than the RXB12 - I think due to non-ideal values on the matching network - but damn it looked sexy with everything on one PCB (I'd post a pic, but the only one I know the whereabouts of is mounted in a box and the component side is facing away from the front, so it would be a pain to take the pic)
Same problem here... until reading this topic, I thought that the receiver was damaged... I put together the TX with the RX and boom !! I see communication.. so the question is.. what was the solution ¿? or this is a bad version of 433 devices ¿?
