Although it has a power supply pin which can be connected with the arduino s 5 volts.
Sim900a gsm module power supply.
My gsm sim900a modem is.
My battery is.
In starting days it worked fine.
The voltage regulator i am using is l7805 which gives a regulated output voltage of 4 9 v.
Gsm sim900a power supply.
Although it has a power supply pin which can be connected with the arduino s 5 volts.
The gsm sim900a module interfacing with esp32 will be explained in one of my future articles.
I am interfacing simcom s gsm module sim900 with arduino.
All pins give the maximum output equal to the power supply which is useable to control most of the devices like sensors and other modules.
Check the power requirements of gsm module gsm modules are manufactured by different companies.
The frequency bands also can be set by at command.
As i said earlier the gsm sim900a module has no onboard voltage regulator.
Power up your gsm by connecting it to arduino s 5v and gnd picture 3 3.
Now wait for some time say 1 minute and see the blinking rate of status led or network led d6 refer picture 5 gsm module will take some time to establish connection with mobile network 5.
How to give power supply to my gsm module with the battery.
Typical power consumption in sleep mode is 1 5ma.
The sim900a gsm module has an operating voltage of 3 4v 4 5v.
Gsm sim900a power supply.
As i said earlier the gsm sim900a module has no onboard voltage regulator.
Insert your sim card to gsm module and lock it.
In this tutorial our gsm module requires a 12 volts input.
It draws high current upto 2a when transmitting data so i would advise using a good quality power supply with capacity of 2 5a 3a.
You need to double check your gsm modules power requirements.
They all have different input power supply specs.
I want to power gsm sim900a with lead acid rechargeable battery 12v 1 2ah.
The sim900a can search the two frequency bands automatically.
The gsm sim900a module interfacing with nodemcu esp8266 and esp32 will be explained in one of my future articles.
Sim900a gsm module pin configuration descripton gpio pins.
First i have given power supply to gsm module from the arduino i e.
How should i design the circuit so that i get 3 2v 4 8v with 2a for proper gsm module operation without destroying any components.
Sim900a gsm module features.
Picture 1 and 2 2.
So we feed it using a 12v 1a dc power supply.
There are a few things that you should take care o.