Powering the nRF51822 Development Kit

[Andre Lochner]

I bought the nRF511822 development Kit, not realising that it needs the nRFgo motherboard to supply power to it.So i have to make do with what I have. I am trying to power the board, I connected 3V3 to pin 1 on P2 and GND to pin 5 on P2. I can program and verify with the J-Link and the nRFgo software. When i run the blinky demo nothing happens and I can see no current draw on my supply. Is there any other pin i need to connect to 3V3 or GND ? It almost look to me like the device is stuck in reset ?

Any help will be appreciated !:)

[Andre Lochner]

I have tried what you suggested. Still no current draw.

Brown wire in the corner connected to GND, other two wires connected to VCC 3.3V.

[Ole Morten]

And you still see no current draw, after having flashed blinky? How do you flash it? What kind of current draw do you see while flashing? What kind of current draw do you see after having done an erase all? Does it change if you flash a softdevice?

Unfortunately, your setup isn't really something we officially support, but based on my own quick tests, there shouldn't really be any problems with it, and when I tested it, I got it working as expected. I'm therefore having a little trouble understanding what the problem might be.