What I would do with this board to use it and power it, is use the power jack holes. Whether or not anyone else could do this, I cannot say. Then again, what I would do is only speculation on my part because I don't think I would have bought this board..
Gerald On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 1:20 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > With the R-Pi's it is back to power the unit from the GPIO because it is >> not regulated from there and one can blow out the board. >> > > I wouldn't say it's bad per se. Assuming 'back' was meant to be 'bad' I'd > say that it would be bad to apply unregulated power through the expansion > header. I guess the rpi foundation expects engineers to know this though, > and supply voltage regulation on their 'hats'. If power through the > expansion header is required. As it would be lame in a 'production > environment' to have to use the walwart to micro usb power adapters. > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 11:10 AM, evilwulfie <evilwul...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think he meant the header power pins rather than a GPIO pin. >> >> On 10/15/2016 11:04 AM, Gerald Coley wrote: >> >> Anyone has the right to build this board. That in no way infers that they >> know how to build it or even can support it. All the parts look in the >> right place, but it is not a Rev B.Looks more like a Rev C. Rev B was built >> using the AM3359 processor. It has the BeagleBone logo, but not the .org >> name, so not sure where they got the logos. So, I would advise buying >> boards from someone who knows what they are talking about, not just some >> scrap dealer. >> >> Pads for the power jack are still there. Solder wires into it to power >> the board. It might even power up once. >> You cannot power a board via a GPIO pin, at least not for more than 5-6 >> seconds depending how big the flames are and how much smoke there is. >> >> Gerald >> >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 10:22 AM, <elfenma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the info, Gerald. I will keep it and see what I can do with >>> it. In the least I am going get replacement USB ports and power ports and >>> put them in. At the same time I ordered through another seller a "complete" >>> Rev. B board for $30. They say that is Debian on it and not Angstrom, which >>> is fine for me, I can always reflash the BBB to get Angstrom on it again. >>> >>> Back to the first unit - I noticed about BBB being sold out there, under >>> the name of "AntMiner"(?) and it too is in the same situation - lacking >>> ports and other things. But this unit, the mission parts look like they >>> were never there and the board redesigned at the factory to move the chips >>> around. In my mind, I think somebody set up a bunch of headless servers >>> with these things. If so, without power how does one turn these things on >>> without a USB or Power Jack? Using the GPIO an option for power input? With >>> the R-Pi's it is back to power the unit from the GPIO because it is not >>> regulated from there and one can blow out the board. >>> >>> Again, any help from anyone is greatly appreciated. >>> -- >>> 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/ms >>> gid/beagleboard/c158ef27-1c25-4449-81a3-051c0c8938d4%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/c158ef27-1c25-4449-81a3-051c0c8938d4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >>> >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gerald >> >> ger...@beagleboard.org >> http://beagleboard.org/ >> gcol...@emprodesign.com >> >> -- >> 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/ms >> gid/beagleboard/CAHK_S%2Bed2aaeBbL3Q%3D2baHFR%2BA7UnCXcB82FE >> WZb-5eesLYEig%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAHK_S%2Bed2aaeBbL3Q%3D2baHFR%2BA7UnCXcB82FEWZb-5eesLYEig%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> 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. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >> gid/beagleboard/8e66bd31-0399-2f7c-4d26-1c226a743cdc%40gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/8e66bd31-0399-2f7c-4d26-1c226a743cdc%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORr%3DBVBcfsoGVqYt-vipL4of%2Bs_% > 2BxfTmUU%2B0d0ULDK0D8g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORr%3DBVBcfsoGVqYt-vipL4of%2Bs_%2BxfTmUU%2B0d0ULDK0D8g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Gerald ger...@beagleboard.org http://beagleboard.org/ gcol...@emprodesign.com -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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