{"id":663,"date":"2013-06-19T21:28:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T03:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/?p=663"},"modified":"2014-01-14T22:56:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T04:56:51","slug":"tp-link-wr703n-serial-port-pads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/tp-link-wr703n-serial-port-pads\/","title":{"rendered":"TP-Link WR703N Serial Port Pads"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TP_IN and TP_OUT connections on the TP-LINK WR703N are pretty touchy. One wrong tug on the soldered wire and the pad will rip off. Just a guess but I think they are held on by silly putty. So what do you do when you rip the pads off? I know the device is sub $25 but who wants to wait another month for a new one? Never fear as you can move down the line to C55 and C57. In my opinion this is actually an easier place connect the wires.<\/p>\n

So…what if you just love tinkering with the device and you accidentally rip the pad on C55 off?
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WR703N Ruined Serial Pads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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You still have nothing to fear! Just follow the line down the the processor and make the connection there! Yes…a total pain in the ass but it works like a charm!<\/p>\n

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WR703N Processor TP_OUT Connection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BTW…for those of you watching at home that is GPIO 10 – pin A79 on the processor (openwrt wiki link<\/a>). \u00a0TP_IN is GPIO 9 – pin B68 under the processor so good luck with that one! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The TP_IN and TP_OUT connections on the TP-LINK WR703N are pretty touchy. One wrong tug on the soldered wire and the pad will rip off. Just a guess but I think they are held on by silly putty. So what do you do when you rip the pads off? I know the device is sub […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[124,125,123,122,119],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware-hacking","tag-hardware-hacking-2","tag-serial-ports","tag-openwrt","tag-tplink","tag-wr703n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jedge.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}