Hello Gerald

How to do RMA ? I am in Shanghai


2014-05-19 20:51 GMT+08:00 Gerald Coley <ger...@beagleboard.org>:

> Do the RMA.
>
> Gerald
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Eric Fort <eric.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Help,
>>
>> I just got an audio cape today and wanting to get it working I added it
>> to the top of the cape stack such that I had a beaglebone white, the
>> battery cape, dvi cape, and finally the new rev b audio cape on top.  a
>> couple days ago I used this setup without the audio cape running on
>> batteries and it worked completely as expected.  I plugged it into the
>> network and used the stack over ssh for over 3 hours as commented in a
>> previous post.  Today, I was a bit short on batteries so after carefully
>> looking over the battery cape SRM found here
>> https://github.com/CircuitCo/BeagleBone-Battery/blob/master/BeagleBone-Battery-RevA-srm.pdf?raw=trueand
>>  determining that it will accept from 1.8-5.5V across VBAT as
>> doccumented on page 16 of the cape SRM I reviewed the schematic to find J8
>> & J9 allow attachment to VBATT such that I may attach a power supply to J8
>> or J9 for power.  I then placed 2 AA cells in the battery holders on the
>> battery cape and measured the voltage across J8 & J9 to determine proper
>> polarity after which I attached a black lead to the minus or negative
>> terminal and a red lead to the positive terminal.  it blinked and flashed
>> nicely as I would wxpect at this point as if trying to boot.  I then
>> attached a 5V power supply to these terminals checking for proper polarity
>> prior to turning on the supply which I measured at 5 volts.  I only took
>> this option because after careful reading of the Battery cape SRM It stated
>> that 5v is in spec.  well the board stack failed to come up or give any
>> indication of life, not so much as a power LED on any of the boards!  then
>> about 15 seconds elapsed and things started to smell.  I pulled power
>> shortly thereafter.  now all that happens when I put batteries in the
>> battery cape in the batteries get too hot to hold in just a couple seconds
>> and the smell returns.  trying to power the beaglebone over USB with no
>> other capes attached blinks the power LED but no other evidence of life is
>> seen.  I am also suspect of the audio cape and dvi cape possibly being
>> fried as well.  are there some additional things I can and should check or
>> is this something for direct RMA?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
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