Some time ago, there was a report that unscheduled power interruptions could cause damage to the CPU's IO pins. The fix was to add a capacitor to the battery header location (TP5..TP8). There never was a spec on how big a capacitor was required.
I just got a Bone Black Rev C from Digi-Key. Is this still a problem? This Bone will be embedded inside a piece of gear that is powered by an equipment rack, and people sometimes cut off the rack power without shutting down the Bone first, although I advise them to do a shutdown properly. We know that the SD card's file system can be corrupted by dropping power without warning, we know how to fix that. But, we are worried about hardware damage. Any comments? Thanks, Jon -- 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/6086f0c2-1363-4cc8-a515-0a7cc01ab504%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
