On Tuesday 14 July 2015 14:40:36 William Hermans wrote: > Just out of curiosity. What is the attraction of a "battery cape" ? I mean > I can see the need for consistent power, and perhaps keeping this as small > as possible, but is that it ? The main advantage if an integrated solution is that you get to monitor the supply and the battery from the manager chip. This way you can shut yourself down cleanly when the battery is about to give up, and go into power save mode when not running on the mains.
How much of that this cape does I do not know. David > > I have always imagine using an "inline" power source such as a regulated > battery output to the barreljack, with a small inline mains to battery > charging circuit. But . . . yeah that's me. > > Anyway my comment is not meant to discourage, or discount other avenues of > thought. I'm simply curious. > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Colin Bester <bester.co...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > Yup, that's what I do with the powercape from Andice Labs as mentioned > > above. Except for very low drain battery is essentially disconnected. > > > > I initially went the route of trying to use the onboard battery connector > > but it's not really a decent solution if you want solid system and battery > > management. > > > > On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 12:12:03 PM UTC-5, Marlon Cesar Pilonetto > > > > wrote: > >> Lords am new to the BBB and what I need is to turn off the battery > >> management so that when my system is not connected to battery is not > >> consumed in its entirety. > >> > >>> -- > > > > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "BeagleBoard" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
