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Overcurrent Issue on STM32H753ZIT6 Nucleo

aditya3
Associate II

Hi,

I am using an STM32H753ZIT6 NUCLEO board. While powering the board with an external supply, we faced an overvoltage issue on the board.

As the user manual reccomends that the board be supplied between 7 to 12 V, we provided it a constant supply of 9.5 V. After a while, the overvoltage warning LED turned on on the board hence the source was disconnected and we found that the voltage regulator on the board was heating excessively. However, even after replacing the regulator with a new one we are facing the same issue. Any help regarding how this can be fixed would be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

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Peter BENSCH
ST Employee

What else is connected to the NUCLEO-H753ZI apart from the supply voltage of 9.5V?

Is it U12 (LD1117S50TR) that is overheating?

Regards
/Peter

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Andrew Neil
Super User

@aditya3 wrote:

the overvoltage (sic?) warning LED turned on on the board


I don't see an over-voltage LED. Do you mean the over-current LED - LD6 ?

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https://www.st.com/resource/en/user_manual/um2407-stm32h7-nucleo144-boards-mb1364-stmicroelectronics.pdf#page=12

 

The User Manual says this indicates over-current on the USB connection to the ST-Link:

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As @Peter BENSCH said, you need to show a schematic of your full setup.

Some good, clear photos would also help.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.

Thanks for the reply.
Our setup consisted of a few sensors connected on a breadboard, which are interfaced with the NUCLEO board.
This included 3.3V digital inputs as well as analog inputs from two potentiometers (a 5V input to PC0 (A1) and a 3.3V input to PA3 (A0)).
After troubleshooting we found that the U12 (LD1117S50TR) was overheating, but even after replacing the U12 there is no change to the issue. As soon as we power on the NUCLEO board with even a laptop connection the LD6 LED turns on.

@aditya3 

@Andrew Neil and I have already asked you to provide precise details of the external connections, ‘a few sensors’ is too imprecise for this.

LD6 shows overcurrent on the track ‘5V_USB_CHGR’, i.e. the supply voltage of 5V coming from the USB micro socket. This means that more than the permitted 500mA is definitely flowing there.

Regards
/Peter

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