#193 Comparison of 10 ESP32 Battery powered Boards without display (incl. deep-sleep)
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Published 2018-03-31
As usual, I found significant differences between the boards which can influence your buying decisions.
These are the contenders:
WMOS /18650: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/bUZrVF2
LOLIN32/Wemos: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/aAAuZ7e
TTGO s.click.aliexpress.com/e/EUrFMjA
TTGO Mini s.click.aliexpress.com/e/niUJieY
TTGO Pico www.aliexpress.com/item/TTGO-T7-ESP32-Module-PICO-…
LOLIN32 Pro Python www.aliexpress.com/item/LOLIN32-Pro-V1-0-0-wifi-bl…
Lolin Lite www.aliexpress.com/item/WEMOS-LOLIN32-Lite-V1-0-0-…
Higrow www.aliexpress.com/item/higrow-ESP32-WiFi-Bluetoot…
Wemos Pro s.click.aliexpress.com/e/UNvJEAm
FireBeetle www.dfrobot.com/product-1590.html
- And the Bare ESP on a PCB as a comparison for current consumption
These are the criteria:
- Does the board use a shielded module or just a chip soldered on the PCB?
- How many pins are broken out to pin headers?
- Does the board come with an antenna connector for an external antenna?
- Is the board breadboard friendly?
- How clear is the pin labeling?
- Does the board have an additional “flash” button?
- Is a battery switch available?
- Which battery connector do you need?
- Does the board crash if you disconnect USB?
- What type of voltage regulator and LiPo management chips are used?
- How much current does the board consume?
Links:
Comparison Table: bit.ly/2J9jpdu
JST-GH connector cables: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/mIMF2VV
JST-XH connector cables: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/3f2RB2R
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All Comments (21)
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So much information in under 12 minutes! Your productions are really excellent. Thank you.
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Another lovely video that can save me lots of time on browser in future! Your work is so much worth than the little you get from us on petrion.
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This work you have done is fantastic and will save me a lot of work. Such a wonderful job you have done.
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Learn so much from your videos. Especially the thinking process behind the tests. Thanks
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The first video I see today which is not April fools ;-) Thanks for the great overview !
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Great video. After two years I still find it useful. Are you willing to do an update?
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Extremely useful video. Greatly appreciate and love all of your work. Thanks for the comparison table.
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Thanks for doing this review; it has come at the perfect time as I was about to start with my home automation, all inspired by you, Sehr geehrter Herr Spiess :)
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Andreas you're becoming an essential and trustworthy reference for all sorts of things! Blast from the past; I was just now using my Engineer PA09 crimpers as recommended by one of your first videos... ;-)
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And once again: many thanks for your mostly useful and ever informative videos (and your humor)! (and patreon is a very good idea in these days of open source and open information...)
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Amazing comparison! Thanks a lot for all this work!
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Excellent overview and well commented/documented. This will help me to choose !
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Thanks Andreas, perfect summary of a host of different boards, very useful.....
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Fantastic video, you are answering a question I have had for a while! Thanks!
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My goodness, that looked like a lot of work. The pics really help.
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Thanks for sharing 😀👍 Happy Easter for all 😀
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Great testing as always, thank you!
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Very useful review, thank you! Especially as it seems most of the I2C issues on the ESP32 Arduino will likely get solved in the near future. There's a fork with reportedly better working I2C support being currently reviewed/cleaned up to be merged into the main project. I don't remember just now the developers name but it can be found from one of the I2C issue thread discussions. The I2C issues have been a blocker for me to start moving forward from the trusty but limited ESP8266.
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Great comparison! Excellent work! Thank you!
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Now that I have watched enough of your videos, I have finally gotten over the accent (easy) and the gloves (not so easy). Your videos are awesome! Thank you so much for your contributions to the community! The technological singularity will probably consider you a god worthy of permanent remembrance, and it might name a node after you!
