POWER SUPPLY pads:
+5V 1. Can be input and output; if you use it as input make sure no other 5V sourcesa re applied to the
board (having Li-Po battery is OK);
2. When the board is attached to USB or to Ethernet PoE this line can be used ONLY as output
to power attached peripherals;
3. If you want to use as input i.e. to feed power from external 5V to this line make sure that
board is not connected to USB!
4. When you use the 5V line as output to power external devices it can provide up to 0.8A @ 5V
(i.e. 4W) maximum. This includes the 3.3V power output. The combined power draw of +5V
output and +3.3V output must not exceed 4W!
+3.3V output which can source up to 0.5A @ 3.3V i.e. (1.65W) Make sure the combined power
sourced from +3.3V and +5V does not exceed 4W!
GND Ground, the board has common ground.
GPIO pads:
ESP_EN resets the ESP32 module
GPIO0, GPIO2 are boot mode bootstrap pins make sure they are properly configured during power up
GPIO1, GPIO3 are used for USB programming, they can be freed up if you won’t further program the
boar via USB
GPIO2, GPIO14, GPIO15 are used for the SD-card, if no SD card is preset they are free to use
GPIO2, GPIO4, GPIO5, GPIO13, GPIO14, GPIO15, GPIO16, GPIO36 are shared on both UEXT
and EXT headers so if you use them on the one connector do not use them at the other
GPI39 is connected to measure external power supply voltage
GPI34 is connected to user button and has 10K pullup
GPI35 is free to use by default but may be connected to measure the LiPo battery voltage if you close
BAT_SENS_E1 jumper
+ESP32-POE-WROVER and ESP32-POE-WROVER-EA have no GPIO16 or GPIO17 led out, since
they are used for the PSRAM. These are replaced by GPIO33 and GPIO0. GPIO17 being replaced by
GPIO0 is crucial for the Ethernet connectivity, since GPIO17/GPIO0 is Ethernet clock out. Make sure to
use new assignments in your software if your board variant comes with the WROVER chip.
The ESP32 chip has very advanced multiplexing and you can define any free GPIO pin for I2C, UART,
SPI operation as long as you are within the maximum supported (some penalties to SPI's maximum
frequency apply, when not using the dedicated pins). Notice that some ESP32 pins can only be inputs.
Defining pins is for another job is purely software effort.
For further analysis of pins it is highly recommended to check on the schematic.
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