On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 5:45:21 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > You do not need anything connected to the beaglebone for any reason. The > beaglebone has an on die ADC that can detect if the AC mains is powered or > not. In which case, after a preset time period the Beaglebone could shut > its self down. > > Meanwhile, an external "device" can just switch off the input 5V to the > beaglebone after a preset amount of time. Then once you have AC power back, > the "Device" simply turns the 5V back on. >
This probably explains why I've not killed my BBB by just pulling the plug (both USB powered and via barrel connector on multiple different occasions). But Derek Molloy's "Exploring Beaglebone" book says you shouldn't do this on Page 21 "how to destroy your Beaglebone". Is he totally wrong here? -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/05df5597-53b3-4059-bf5e-96e01ab6807f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.