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Adventures with real-time clocks – part 2 #rtc #Arduino

The story so far: I’d been tinkering with an MCP795W20 real-time clock (RTC) chip and having a frustrating time of it. Weird things were happening. It seemed very finicky. I’d put part of the problem down to using a breadboard (still think I’m not entirely wrong about that). It turns out, however, that the biggest problem was my own stupidity. I’d used entirely the wrong values for the load…