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Wireless RFM69HW Breakout Board PCB - Long Range

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Build your own long range, easy to use, ISM band wireless RF module. Great for microcontroller / Arduino projects where you want an RF link.

Designed by Modtronics Australia, Ships from Canada

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Build your own long range, easy to use, ISM band wireless RF module. Great for microcontroller / Arduino projects where you want an RF link.

Product Description This is our band new breakout board for the HopeRF RFM69HW wireless RF module, from HopeRF. This breakout board gives you access to all the pins on the RFM69HW module in a throu...

Product Description

This is our band new breakout board for the HopeRF RFM69HW wireless RF module, from HopeRF. This breakout board gives you access to all the pins on the RFM69HW module in a through hole format that is easy to use in a prototyping environment. The antenna connection is via a convenient SMA male connector allowing you to attach either a stub antenna or anything up to a yagi for superior range. This gives our RFM69HW breakout board the best range of any breakout board on the market!

Note, this product is the bare RFM69HW Breakout Board for you to assemble yourself. You can use your own RFM69HW module or purchase one from our store. For more information on the Hope RF RFM69HW module visit its product page or download the datasheets below.

If you would prefer a fully constructed RFM69HW breakout board, with the RFM69HW module and SMA connector pre-installed, our RFM69HW Breakout board – with installed module is the product for you.

The RFM69HW breakout board PCB comes in a 14-pin DIP compatible module, with pins spaced at 2.54mm (suitable for breadboard use with wide breadboards similar to this one) and uses an SMA male connector for the antenna (not included with the bare PCB).

Features

14-pin DIP compatible PCB, pins spaced at the standard 2.54mm
Can be mounted directly onto a breadboard or prototyping board
Mounts directly onto our nanoTRONICS24 – PIC24 Development Board
SMA connector for antenna – allowing for excellent range (not included)
On board decoupling capacitors – for improved wireless module performance and range
Our trademark purple soldermask and white silk screen – looks fantastic
Highest quality ENIG plated PCB to reduce corrosion and enable easy soldering
Dimensions: 38 x 33 x 1.6 mm

Downloads

Compatible Products

Links

RFM69HW Breakout Board PCB Product Page

You can follow us on twitter at @modtronics You can find our website at http://modtronicsaustralia.com

Rates to United States of America

Shipping Rate	First item	Additional items
Canada Post: Standard International Airmail	$10.00	$0.15
Canada Post: Standard registered airmail shipping	$16.50	$0.50
Canada Post: Tracker Airmail	$34.00	$0.50
Canada Post: International Express Post	$79.60	$0.50

Review Breakdown

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Kevin | March 24, 2015

Not suitable for breadboard use.

"...The RFM69HW breakout board PCB comes in a 14-pin DIP compatible module, with pins spaced at 2.54mm (suitable for breadboard use) and uses an SMA male connector for the antenna (not included with the bare PCB)...."

Must be different breadboards in the US than in Austrailia. The pin spacing of 2.54 mm matches but every breadboards that I can locate in the lab are 5 pins wide each side but the RFM69HW breakout board PCB pin row to pin row are like 1 row wider. See enclosed picture.
Overall quality is very nice but unless you have a breadboard that can mate to this, it is not usable in that capacity. Review Image

Response from Modtronics Australia | March 27, 2015

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the feedback and review - we really appreciate all feedback on our products and are very happy you liked the quality of our product! Superior quality is something we really strive to achieve.

I'm sorry to hear about your experiences using our module with your breadboard. All our RFM breakout boards (inc RFM69HW) are designed to work with breadboards, solderable protoboards and our of course own nanoTRONICS microcontroller platform. When using it with a breadboard we tend to use a bigger breadboard than the one you seem to be using, as we're often doing large projects. The breadboards we use are similar to this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MOLF28/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008MOLF28&linkCode=as2&tag=elecreviblo04-20&linkId=7ESQL7YGGJZWCYMM. Similar breadboards are readily available at Australian retailers and thus what we've always used them. I'll update our listings in the near future to provide an example (recommended) breadboard.

In addition to striving for excellent quality products we also pride ourselves on our customer service. As such we'd like to make your experience with our products as enjoyable as possible. If you'd rather not upgrade your breadboard, please get in touch - either via our website or the Tindie message service and we'll see what we can do to increase your enjoyment of our product.

We have a new slim RFM69HW breakout board launching soon. The slim RFM69HW breakout board is smaller in size and breaks out only the essential RFM69HW pins to a single SIL socket. Perhaps this would be a more suitable product for your use? This product is currently undergoing beta testing with selected customers - perhaps you'd like to participate in this beta test program. Again, if this is of interest to you please get in touch and we'll sort out the arrangements.

Once again, thank you for your feedback, it is an invaluable way for us to improve our products for future releases.

Kind regards,

The Modtronics Australia Team.