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rallyr 11/06/2020
These little receivers work really well, and I'd love to give them a 5 star rating, but there are issues. On the good side, I've bought around 30 of them from Banggood and all 30 function properly. I use them at higher than normal communication speed, 115000 baud, and at the maximum position fix rate of 10hz (100ms). I power them with 3.3 volts and communicate directly to a PIC24 microcontroller. So, the bad side is quality control. Some units have the antenna mounted crooked, which does not seem to affect performance but can make it had to fit the part into a system mechanically. The bigger problem occured on the most recent batch I've just received: THE WIRING IS INCORRECT! Each GPS unit includes a connector with colored wires preattached. This is great, and until the latest delivery they were correctly colored as per the data sheets. (ie: Red is Vcc, Black is Ground, etc.) The latest batch has the connections all mixed up at the plug, and this causes the GPS to malfunction when wired per the data sheet. Once I saw the problem and reworked the color codes, everything worked fine, but there was a big potential for burning out the receiver. Also, it wasted a huge amount of my time going back and re-wiring 10 of my finished product so the GPS would work. This is a bad quality control issue and is the main cause of my downgraded review. I've included a picture of the correct wiring next to what I've received. If you buy this product, be very careful checking the colors and connections to be sure they don't differ from the instructions.
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