I now have my problem resolved... after thinking more about it I was supplying to much voltage to the sim800L. I was giving it 5V and it has a max of 4.2 (4.4 depending on where I read). After wiring up some 1.2V 2250mah AA's to get ~3.8V it is now running just fine.
Now I just have to rewrite the sim900 espruino module for this thing to boot... its at least responding now!
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I now have my problem resolved... after thinking more about it I was supplying to much voltage to the sim800L. I was giving it 5V and it has a max of 4.2 (4.4 depending on where I read). After wiring up some 1.2V 2250mah AA's to get ~3.8V it is now running just fine.
Now I just have to rewrite the sim900 espruino module for this thing to boot... its at least responding now!