Arduino Nano Every Vin 5V fixes I2c problems

Question

I had problems with connecting my devices via I2C. The "requestfrom" constantly hanged and the endtransmission sometimes gave NACK responses.

After disconnecting the devices from 12V and powering one of them via USB (vin with which it was connected to the other arduino's became 3.8V) they stopped misbehaving and worked together in harmony.

How is this possible? Am I missing something? An Arduino Nano Every should be driven between 6-21V?

All devices are "Arduino Nano Every"'s. They used to get 12V directly on Vin and are connected together in a chain by Vin,GND,A5(SCK),A4(SDA)

The master is in the middle of the chain so that the distance is max 20cm.

I also tried powering them via vin with 9V and 5V. Had the same issue.

Already big thanks for the help.

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Answer 1

SO... In the datasheet it says you should use 7-21V on VIN. This gave the problem. I powered the arduinos directly from 5V on the vin. This fixed all I2C problems. Haven't had any problems anymore after changing this.

cheers to all.

• timemage: You're saying that the voltage on the input side of regulator... causes the internal pull-ups to change value inside of a chip on the output side of the regulator?
• Juraj: it doesn't make sense
• timemage: Not the way I'm reading it currently anyway.
• Roel: Is this better?
• timemage: To my thinking, yes. You're saying something factual about what you did and what you observed correlated to it. You removed the bits that seemingly had no fact or theory behind them and had no indication that they were, as you put it "pure guess." I call that an improvement.